Autonomous system
AS55581 BINARY-AU NEXT TELECOM
Residential APNIC
Summary
Next Telecom
residential isp australia commsgroup
BINARY-AU is the AS handle for Next Telecom, the national retail brand of Comms Group Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business broadband traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
static-38-254.mel.0101.net.auandptr-27-116-37-255.0101.net.au. - The AS announces 5632 IPv4 addresses across 9 prefixes with only 2 observed neighbours, a ratio characteristic of an access network delivering service to end-users rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber eyeballs and business VoIP/data connections, as Next Telecom provides ADSL2+, Fibre, NBN, and hosted PBX services to Australian customers.
Notable
- Registrants include Binary Networks Pty Ltd, Binary Wholesale Pty Ltd, Next Telecom Pty Ltd, Tasmanet, and Corpita, reflecting the corporate history and acquisitions that formed the current Comms Group entity.
- Next Telecom is the rebranded identity of Binary Networks, which was formerly known as BKB Internet and TRUECOM, and is now part of the ASX-listed Comms Group.
- The inventory includes a mix of /22, /23, and /24 blocks, with one prefix registered to Tasmanet and another to Corpita, indicating retained address space from previous mergers.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.215 |
| Megaport IX Brisbane | Brisbane, Australia | 103.26.70.89 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS64098 | TASMANET | 976 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 4.61K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS55581- Registry name
- BINARY-AU
- Registrant
- BINARY NETWORKS PTY LTD
- Abuse contact
- data-noc@commschoice.com
- Registered
- 2021-04-16
- Last changed
- 2025-07-02
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 16 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS55581
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 16 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 80 naming AS55581
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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