Autonomous system
AS7342 VERISIGN-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations
enterprise dns anycast legacy
VERISIGN-AS is the network of Verisign, the American company that operates the .com and .net domain registries and a large share of the internet's authoritative DNS machinery. The ASN is registered to VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations in Reston, Virginia.
What it's used for
- Verisign's DNS and registry infrastructure. Announced prefixes carry netnames like
VGRSGTLDandVGRS— VeriSign Global Registry Services — confirming the space is registry and resolution infrastructure rather than corporate desktops. - The routing footprint is unmistakably anycast: about 129 IPv4
/24s and 128 IPv6/48s, drawn from ARIN (199.7.48.0,209.131.128.0,64.6.64.0,216.87.128.0), RIPE (81.19.192.0,217.30.80.0) and APNIC (103.87.108.0) space. Announcing many small identical-sized blocks from every region is how you put the same service in dozens of places at once.
Notable
- This is critical infrastructure, and it fits none of the usual categories. The addresses are neither eyeball subscribers nor rented hosting; they are servers answering DNS queries for a large fraction of the world's domain names.
- Because the prefixes are anycast, an IP here has no single meaningful physical location — the same address answers from a different site depending on where the query comes from. Geolocation of this space is inherently approximate.
- Registered with ARIN in November 1996, when Verisign's predecessor businesses were being built out around the same registry role.
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
Recorded at 17 exchanges in 5 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.245 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.46 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.232 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:13::a500:7342:1 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.230.100 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.170 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.133 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.106 |
Transit providers
58 upstream, 41 downstream and 163 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 63 prefixes · 32.51K addresses IPv6 58 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 121 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7342- Registry name
- VERISIGN-AS
- Registrant
- VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations
- Abuse contact
- netadmin@verisign.com
- Registered
- 1996-11-13
- Last changed
- 2007-05-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 252 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 293 authorising AS7342
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 252 of 252 announcements
- Route objects
- 586 naming AS7342
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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