Autonomous system
AS10152 NEC-MELB-DC-AS-AP NEC Australia Pty Ltd
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
NEC Australia Pty Ltd
NEC-MELB-DC-AS-AP is NEC Australia Pty Ltd, the Australian subsidiary of the Japanese technology group. The handle names the network's job outright: the Melbourne data centre from which NEC Australia runs managed and hosted services for its enterprise and public-sector clients.
What it's used for
Data-centre and managed-service infrastructure. The AS announces 4 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,024 addresses — 147.76.0.0/24, 147.76.1.0/24, 147.76.51.0/24 and 147.76.180.0/24, four scattered /24s taken from NEC's legacy 147.76.0.0/16 — and no IPv6. Announcing only four /24s out of a /16 is what a subsidiary does when it originates the portion of a global parent's address space that its own facility actually uses.
The single sampled PTR, dns2.dc.nec.com.au, is a first-party resolver in the dc.nec.com.au zone: the operator's own name servers, sitting in the operator's own data-centre domain. That is core infrastructure, not subscriber or transit space.
Notable
This is a hosting and managed-services network, not a carrier or an eyeball network. 1,024 addresses with 2 observed BGP neighbours is a facility multihomed for resilience; a wholesale carrier would peer with hundreds of ASes. Geolocate the space to a Melbourne data centre, to NEC-managed servers and customer workloads, not to end users.
Interesting
NEC Australia's business here is outsourced IT for Australian enterprises and government agencies, so addresses in this block may front a client's public service while remaining operationally NEC's.
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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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10152- Registry name
- NEC-MELB-DC-AS-AP
- Registrant
- NEC Australia Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- it.support@nec.com.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-10-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS10152
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS10152
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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