Autonomous system
AS10016 MINC Minaminihon Information Processing Center Co Ltd
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Minaminihon Information Processing Center Co., Ltd.
MINC is Minaminihon Information Processing Center Co., Ltd. (株式会社南日本情報処理センター), a Kagoshima systems integrator founded in 1969. Alongside software development, data entry and outsourcing, it runs a data centre and a regional ISP, Minc Internet, whose service domain minc.ne.jp is the one visible on this network.
What it's used for
A small regional provider network. The AS announces exactly one IPv4 prefix, 61.205.64.0/20 — 4,096 addresses — and no IPv6. The only sampled PTR is ns.minc.ne.jp: a nameserver, i.e. the operator's own service infrastructure, not customer equipment. With a single aggregate and 2 observed BGP neighbours, this is a stub network with a pair of upstreams and no peering to speak of.
Notable
Classified as business rather than residential. Minc Internet does sell connectivity, but it does so mostly by reselling NTT's FLET'S fibre — the subscriber's line and its dynamic address usually come from NTT's own infrastructure, not from this /20. What a /20 of self-held space is for in that model is the pieces that need to be stable: nameservers, mail, hosted customer servers, fixed-IP business plans and the data-centre estate. The evidence available fits that reading and does not show a subscriber pool.
Interesting
The company is a good example of a Japanese pattern that is easy to misread from the outside: a mid-century regional data-processing bureau that added an ISP in the 1990s and never separated the two. The name says "information processing centre"; the network behaves like a small enterprise hoster. Neither the legal name nor the ISP branding alone would get you to the right answer.
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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 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| JP | Japan | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10016- Registry name
- MINC
- Registered
- 2000-04-27
- Last changed
- 2006-06-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10016
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS10016
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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