AS14738 — DIGIKEY

AS14738 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

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 netname DIGIKEY1.
• 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.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 204.221.76.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS19905 Vercara, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS19905 Vercara, LLC