Autonomous system
AS38008 APERTURE-AS-AP Aperture Science Limited
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
AperNet
vpn transit business
APERTURE-AS-AP is operated by AperNet (Aperture Science Limited).
What it's used for
- The address space carries VPN and network infrastructure, evidenced by netnames
APERTURE-HK,APERNET-AU, andAPERNET-CGNT-NET-1, and a reverse DNS entryli-dev.cn. - The AS announces 2048 IPv4 addresses across 4 prefixes and 79 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 245 observed neighbours; this high neighbour-to-address ratio indicates a transit or peering-heavy role rather than an access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of encrypted VPN tunnels and inter-AS routing traffic, consistent with AperNet's business as a global network service provider.
Notable
- Registrants vary across prefixes:
Black Mesa Corporationfor23.247.138.0/23,Aperture Science LimitedandAperNet Administratorsfor103.152.34.0/23,AperNetfor103.181.44.0/23, andAperture Science LLCfor209.146.104.0/23. - The address inventory is finely subdivided into small /23 blocks and numerous /48 to /41 IPv6 prefixes, reflecting a segmented corporate or service-provider estate.
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 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 2001:de8:7::3:8008:1 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 183.177.61.63 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 30 downstream and 59 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 78 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 82 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS38008- Registry name
- APERTURE-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Aperture Science Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@apernet.io
- Registered
- 2020-06-15
- Last changed
- 2023-12-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 60% valid · 18 valid, 12 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 549 authorising AS38008
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 30 of 30 announcements
- Route objects
- 125 naming AS38008
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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