Autonomous system
AS26008 AKAMAI-NOMINUM-ASN
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Akamai Technologies (Nominum)
cdn edge security
An Akamai Autonomous System (AKAMAI-NOMINUM-ASN) tracing to Akamai's 2017 acquisition of Nominum, a carrier-grade DNS and DNS-security vendor. It backs recursive DNS and threat-protection services rather than general CDN caching.
What it's used for
- Carrier and enterprise DNS resolution plus DNS-based security filtering (malware, phishing, and data-exfiltration blocking).
Notable
- Operated by Akamai, a major CDN/edge provider; this block is DNS/security infrastructure specifically.
- Sibling of Akamai's CDN ASNs — see AS23454 and AS24319.
Interesting
- Nominum's platform handled well over a trillion DNS queries per day, which Akamai folded into its security threat intelligence.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS26008- Registry name
- AKAMAI-NOMINUM-ASN
- Registrant
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@akamai.com
- Registered
- 2009-04-08
- Last changed
- 2019-12-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 65% valid · 11 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS26008
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 88% registered · 15 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS26008
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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