AS266

AS266 is a low-numbered (16-bit) autonomous system held under ARIN by IT Digital Services LLC, a small US operator registered in Dover, Delaware (handle AS-ITDS). Despite the low ASN value, this is not a legacy allocation: ARIN's top-level RDAP autnum record shows the AS266 number was registered on 2025-10-14, making it a recently re-issued or reassigned slot rather than an early-Internet holding. The operator describes itself on its own site (itds.llc) as a digital-commerce, web-development, networking, and custom-hardware company founded in 2024. Routing presence is minimal and intermittent: RIPEstat's as-overview reports the AS as not currently announced, while announced-prefixes and routing-status show a single IPv6 block, 2602:f51b::/40, that first entered the global table on 2025-10-15 (one day after allocation) and was last seen 2026-06-20, visible to only a handful of RIS peers (4 of 327 for v4, 0 of 322 for v6) with one observed upstream neighbour. CAIDA AS Rank and customer-cone data were unavailable (the API returned HTTP 502), so degree and cone metrics are unknown. On the security side, no notable public abuse signal was found as of 2026-06-21 — AS266 is absent from Spamhaus ASN-DROP (2026-05-29 edition) and community blocklists, and surfaces in no NANOG or threat-intel results. The one routing-hygiene note on record is a Hurricane Electric flag of an RPKI/IRR origin mismatch ("ROA signed and invalid," bogon-announcement) on an associated IPv4 prefix; this is a single-source observation, dated, and consistent with an early-stage misconfiguration rather than confirmed malicious activity.

Operator

IT Digital Services LLC (ARIN handle AS-ITDS; org handle IDSL-16; registered 8 The Green STE B, Dover, DE 19901) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP (https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/266), itds.llc

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP (https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/266); RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder authoritative_rir: arin

Allocated

2025-10-14 (ARIN autnum TOP-LEVEL registration event — a first-party RIR fact, NOT an IEEE date); last changed 2025-12-06 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events[] (https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/266)

AS name

AS-ITDS [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP (https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/266)

Org status

Delaware LLC (IT Digital Services LLC), founded 2024; RIR org handle IDSL-16 [Likely] — itds.llc, ARIN RDAP (https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/266)

Contacts

admin@itds.llc / +1-314-327-1093 (organisation administrative POC, ITDSA-ARIN, Dover DE); technical/abuse POC Colten Lange (LANGE199-ARIN, Scottsdale AZ; registration comment plasmarack.com) — the POC's personal mailbox and direct line are withheld here, consult the ARIN RDAP entity record directly [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP entities (https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ITDSA-ARIN, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LANGE199-ARIN)

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-21 — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP (2026-05-29), brianhama bad-asn-list, NANOG archives, or AbuseIPDB (404). Technical contact Colten Lange has a documented community-forum dispute history (PlasmaRack), but no law-enforcement action or conviction found

Network & routing

Network type

small/young operator running BGP with IPv6 space; self-described digital-commerce, web-dev, networking and custom-hardware company (founded 2024) [Likely] — itds.llc, ipinfo.io/AS266

Size / routing

NOT currently announced per RIPEstat as-overview; one IPv6 prefix 2602:f51b::/40 observed in routing 2026-06-07 → 2026-06-20 (first seen 2025-10-15); v4/v6 announced prefixes = 0 at query time [Confirmed] — RIPEstat as-overview / announced-prefixes / routing-status (resource=266)

AS rank / customer cone

Unknown — CAIDA AS Rank API returned HTTP 502 [Unknown] — api.asrank.caida.org (error)

RPKI

not fully assessable from supplied data (no prefix passed to validator). Single-source third-party note: Hurricane Electric flags an RPKI/IRR origin mismatch ("ROA signed and invalid," bogon announcement) on an associated IPv4 prefix [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS266

Peering policy

Open per PeeringDB profile (no ratio/location/contract requirement); no active IX memberships listed [Likely] — peeringdb.com/asn/266

Related ASNs

technical contact Colten Lange also associated with AS198963 (RIPE personal ASN); upstream/peer signals mention Teracast Networks LLC and iFog GmbH [Likely] — ipinfo.io/AS198963, peeringdb.com/asn/266

Visibility

extremely low — 4/327 RIS peers see any v4, 0/322 see v6; 1 observed neighbour (single upstream, identity unconfirmed) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status (resource=266)

Analyst note

low-numbered slot but a RECENT (2025-10-14) ARIN registration, not a legacy allocation — record the autnum date as-is. Minimal, intermittent routing; one dated single-source RPKI/IRR hygiene flag; otherwise no abuse signal. CAIDA metrics unavailable (502).