Autonomous system
AS37088 VDT-AS
Hosting APNIC
Summary
VDT Communications
broadband isp nigerian corporate
The AS handle VDT-AS is operated by VDT Communications Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries broadband communication services for large organizations, SMEs, and individuals in Nigeria, as indicated by the registrant netname
ORG-VCL2-AFRINICand the operator's self-description as a broadband service provider. - The AS announces 12,288 IPv4 addresses across 18 prefixes and 5 IPv6 prefixes, maintaining 17 observed neighbours; this ratio of address space to peering peers is consistent with an access or eyeball network providing last-mile connectivity.
Notable
- The registrants for the majority of the largest prefixes, such as
41.216.168.0/21and102.135.208.0/21, align with the announcer, listingVDT COMMUNICATIONS LIMITEDas the holder. - VDT Communications is a member company of BITCOM Systems Limited, a corporate structure that supports its operations as a Nigerian broadband leader.
- The inventory includes a mix of /21, /22, /23, and /24 blocks, with some prefixes like
102.135.192.0/22showing unknown registrant data in the RDAP sample.
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 | 196.216.148.17 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 5 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 15 prefixes · 12.29K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS37088- Registry name
- ORG-VCL2-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- VDT COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
- Registered
- 2009-02-19
- Last changed
- 2025-12-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 43 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS37088
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 43 of 43 announcements
- Route objects
- 103 naming AS37088
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: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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