Autonomous system
AS36938 NIRA
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Nigeria Internet Registration Association
registry nonprofit nira ng
The AS handle NIRA is held by Nigeria Internet Registration Association.
What it's used for
- The address space carries the operational infrastructure for the .ng country-code top-level domain registry, as indicated by the netname
ORG-NIRA1-AFRINICand the registrant identity. - The AS announces 512 IPv4 addresses within a single prefix (41.222.78.0/23) and one IPv6 prefix (2c0f:f098::/32), while maintaining 9 observed routing neighbours. This ratio of a small, consolidated address block against a moderate number of peers suggests a specialized service or registry network rather than a large-scale access or transit provider.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant for the announced prefix matches the AS holder, confirming that the Nigeria Internet Registration Association directly owns the address space.
- NiRA is the designated registry for the .ng ccTLD, operating under a Registry/Registrar model to manage domain name registrations in Nigeria.
- The inventory consists of a single contiguous IPv4 block and one IPv6 prefix, indicating a focused internal estate for registry services rather than a distributed customer base.
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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 | 196.216.148.7 |
Transit providers
5 upstream, 0 downstream and 8 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 2026-10-14, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2012-06-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS36938
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS36938
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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