| Geo or brand-word shortcut | Users who only want a rough first glance | City labels, organization names, and result-page tags | This has the highest false-positive cost and most easily merges raw network, service role, and seller into one answer | Low | Use only as first-pass screening |
| DigitalOcean network attribution | Users who need to answer whether it looks like the DigitalOcean network | ASN, WHOIS, prefixes, datacenter regions, and developer-cloud context | It answers whether the IP looks like the DigitalOcean network, but it still cannot replace product-line or seller conclusions | Low-medium | Best as the main decision layer |
| Service role plus seller cross-check | Users who need to separate product role and final responsibility together | Droplets, App Platform, managed databases, load balancers, or third-party services running on DO; The sample may be a SaaS, proxy, or hosting platform running on DO rather than a final product sold by DigitalOcean itself | It needs more context and cannot be finished from one IP field alone | Medium | Best as the final judgment path |