Autonomous system
AS30998 Netcom Africa Limited - Netcom Africa Limited
Hosting AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Netcom Africa
isp residential nigerian cable
NAL-AS is operated by Netcom Africa Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries consumer and business internet access, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
netcomafrica.comacross all sampled prefixes. - The AS announces 45,056 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 14 observed neighbours. This ratio of address volume to peering partners indicates an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- All four largest IPv4 prefixes share the netname
ORG-NAL1-AFRINICand list Netcom Africa Limited as the registrant, confirming consistent ownership. - Secondary sources identify the operator as a cable and DSL ISP founded in 2004, also known as Netfinity Limited, serving Nigeria's emerging markets.
- The inventory consists of four IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix, all located in Nigeria, with no apparent fragmentation or external leasing indicated by the registrant data.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.4 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 4 downstream and 16 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-04, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 45.06K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS30998- Registry name
- ORG-NAL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Netcom Africa Limited
- Registered
- 2005-03-07
- Last changed
- 2026-06-19
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Netcom Africa
- Also known as
- Netfinity Limited
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS30998- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.netcomafrica.com
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, 218 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS30998
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 218 of 218 announcements
- Route objects
- 56 naming AS30998
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: 452 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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