Autonomous system
AS16284 Inq. Digital Nigeria - Inq. Digital Nigeria
Hosting AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Inq. Digital Nigeria
isp telecom hosting
Thirty-six blocks, one netname between them, and it holds a predecessor's initials.
What it's used for
- A provider's network. Fifty-two prefixes announced from Nigeria, sixteen of them IPv6, twenty-six thousand six hundred and twenty-four addresses, through sixteen observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every sampled block carries the same netname, and it is not a name but a registry organisation handle: three letters for organisation, three initials, a serial number, and the registry's own name appended.
- Those initials match nothing in the record. The company that holds the blocks now has different ones, so the handle preserves whoever registered the organisation first.
- The holder field is the company name, a hyphen, and the company name again, identical on both sides.
- Sixteen IPv6 prefixes against thirty-six IPv4 blocks is a heavy commitment to the newer protocol for a network this size.
- One of eighteen queried addresses answered, and the name belongs to an educational institution's domain rather than to the provider, so the one published name describes a customer.
- The IPv4 blocks are scattered across three unrelated ranges, in sizes from four thousand addresses down to five hundred and twelve.
Interesting
- An organisation handle used as a netname for every block is the registry filling in a field nobody bothered with. It is unique and correct and tells a reader nothing, thirty-six times over.
- A provider whose only visible hostname is a university is serving institutions rather than households.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.9 |
| West Africa Interconnection Exchange | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.49.90.21 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 36 prefixes · 26.88K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 36 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS16284- Registry name
- ORG-GTN1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Inq. Digital Nigeria
- Registered
- 2007-01-25
- Last changed
- 2024-04-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- inq. Digital Nigeria
- Also known as
- Inq.Digital
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AFRINIC::AS-VODACOM-NIGERIA-ASES- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.inq.inc
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 109 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16284
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 109 of 109 announcements
- Route objects
- 320 naming AS16284
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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