Autonomous system
AS14738 DIGIKEY - Digi-Key Corporation
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Digi-Key
business enterprise hosting
A distributor that ships millions of parts a year, announcing 512 addresses through one upstream.
What it's used for
- An electronic components distributor's network. 512 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
204.221.76.0/23, carrying the netnameDIGIKEY1. - That netname drops the hyphen from the company name and adds a counter.
- The AS handle drops the hyphen too, while the registrant keeps it.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- The mismatch between the size of the business and the size of the network is the story here. A distributor of this kind runs one of the busiest catalogue and ordering systems in its industry, and none of that is announced from this number. The public storefront lives with a delivery provider; what routes here is the corporate and warehouse side.
- A hyphen in a company name is dropped by almost every field it passes through, which is why two of the three records here spell the name differently from the registrant. Searching for either spelling finds part of the picture.
- One upstream is thin for a business whose revenue arrives through a website, and is the clearest evidence that the website is not here.
- A counter on the netname with one block, once again, records an expectation of growth that the registry never saw.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS19905 | Vercara, LLC | 120 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14738- Registry name
- DIGIKEY
- Registrant
- Digi-Key Corporation
- Abuse contact
- ken.kalvoda@digikey.com
- Registered
- 2000-02-01
- Last changed
- 2021-05-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14738
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS14738
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 454 networks and 1,847 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere