Autonomous system
AS37358 BITCO
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
BitCo
isp fibre residential south-africa
The AS handle BITCO is operated by BitCo, a South African telecommunications provider.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business access traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
bitcointernet.co.zaand netnames likeORG-BA10-AFRINIC. - With 24,576 IPv4 addresses announced across 35 prefixes and 37 observed neighbours, the ratio suggests a regional access network rather than a pure transit provider, consistent with its role as a cable/DSL/ISP.
Notable
- Registrants largely align with the announcer, with most prefixes registered to
BitCounderORG-BA10-AFRINIC, though one prefix (102.223.96.0/22) is registered toKaltrade 470 (Pty) Ltd. - The address inventory is finely subdivided into numerous /23 and /22 blocks, indicating site-by-site or customer-segmented allocation typical of an access network.
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 6 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.11.61 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.38 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.79 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.74 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.79 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.79 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 14 downstream and 27 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 35 prefixes · 24.58K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 36 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37358- Registry name
- ORG-BA10-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- BitCo
- Registered
- 2011-07-13
- Last changed
- 2026-07-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 26% valid · 6 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS37358
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 40 naming AS37358
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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