Autonomous system
AS37656 SOTERIA-AS
Hosting AFRINIC
Summary
Soteria Cloud
hosting cloud south-africa
SOTERIA-AS is operated by Activest Twenty Six PTY LTD, known commercially as Soteria Cloud.
What it's used for
- The address space is registered under the netname
ORG-ATSP1-AFRINICand held by Activest Twenty Six PTY LTD. - The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix,
196.11.102.0/24, comprising 256 addresses, with 0 IPv6 prefixes. - With 6 observed neighbours, the network functions as a hosting or cloud provider rather than a transit carrier or large-scale residential ISP.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web and API endpoints for Soteria Cloud's hosting and cloud services in Africa.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant
Activest Twenty Six PTY LTDmatches the AS holder and the PeeringDB identityActivest 26 CC TA SoteriaCloud. - The address inventory is minimal, consisting of a single /24 block, which is typical for a specialized hosting provider rather than a broad-access ISP.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.76 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.23.125 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37656- Registry name
- ORG-ATSP1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Activest Twenty Six PTY LTD
- Registered
- 2013-11-12
- Last changed
- 2016-05-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37656
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS37656
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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