Autonomous system
AS37680 COOL-IDEAS
Residential AFRINIC
Summary
Cool Ideas
isp residential fiber south-africa
COOL-IDEAS is operated by Cool Ideas Service Provider (Pty) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business subscriber traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
n6bk-cust.coolideas.co.zaandu35s-cust.coolideas.co.za. - The AS announces 74,752 IPv4 addresses across 13 prefixes and maintains 1,108 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access network rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic originates from fiber and fixed wireless internet subscribers in South Africa, reflecting the operator's business model of providing broadband connectivity to end-users.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes align with the announcer, specifically
Cool Ideas Service Provider (Pty) Ltd, while the102.36.64.0/20block is registered toClear Access (Pty) Ltd. - The inventory is dominated by the
102.132.128.0/17and155.93.128.0/18blocks, with the remainder consisting of smaller /20 to /24 allocations within the155.93.0.0/16and102.223.0.0/16ranges.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 9 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.27 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.171 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.171 |
| DE-CIX Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 185.1.193.15 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.83 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.171 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.83 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.83 |
Transit providers
22 upstream, 9 downstream and 44 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 74.75K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37680- Registry name
- ORG-CIc1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Cool Ideas Service Provider (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2013-07-15
- Last changed
- 2023-07-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 30 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 37 authorising AS37680
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 30 of 30 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS37680
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,781 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