Autonomous system
AS37105 RAIN-GROUP-HOLDINGS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
rain
mobile isp south-africa residential
RAIN-GROUP-HOLDINGS is the autonomous system for rain, a major South African mobile and fixed-line telecommunications provider.
What it's used for
- The address space carries consumer and enterprise traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
rain-41-56-64-0.rain.networkandrain-197-185-64-0.rain.network. - With 279,808 IPv4 addresses announced across 22 prefixes and 23 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates an access network serving a large subscriber base rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants consistently identify as
RAIN GROUP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTDorrain admin role, aligning with the AS holder. - The inventory is finely subdivided into numerous /16, /17, /18, and smaller blocks, reflecting a large-scale internal corporate estate segmented by service or region.
- The AS has been observed in routing tables since 2009, indicating a long-standing presence in the South African internet infrastructure.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.10.28 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.169 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.42 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.42 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 23 prefixes · 280K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 26 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37105- Registry name
- ORG-RGHL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- RAIN GROUP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD
- Registered
- 2022-09-26
- Last changed
- 2026-01-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 39 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 37 authorising AS37105
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 39 of 39 announcements
- Route objects
- 52 naming AS37105
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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