Autonomous system
AS4771 SPARKNZ Spark New Zealand Trading Ltd.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Spark New Zealand
isp eyeball backbone
Spark (SPARKNZ) — New Zealand's largest telecom and former incumbent, the country's biggest broadband and mobile provider.
What it's used for
- Consumer and business fixed broadband and mobile across New Zealand.
Notable
- The dominant New Zealand "eyeball" network.
Interesting
- Spark was known as Telecom New Zealand until a 2014 rebrand, after the incumbent's access network was split off into the separate wholesaler Chorus.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Internet Exchange Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 43.243.21.135 |
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 181 prefixes · 796K addresses IPv6 40 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 221 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4771- Registry name
- SPARKNZ
- Registrant
- Spark New Zealand Trading Limited
- Abuse contact
- sir@spark.co.nz
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0.8% valid · 4 valid, 496 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS4771
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 492 of 500 announcements 4 other origin
- Route objects
- 1,143 naming AS4771
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 1,781 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