Autonomous system
AS55850 MERCURYNZ-AS-AP Mercury NZ Limited
Residential ARIN
Summary
Mercury NZ
isp residential eyeball fiber fixed-wireless
Mercury NZ Limited (MERCURY-NZ) is a New Zealand energy-and-telecom company that runs its own consumer ISP network, selling home internet nationwide.
What it's used for
- Residential fibre and fixed-wireless broadband for households across New Zealand, delivered over the national UFB fibre network plus its own wireless.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network: addresses here are home internet connections, not servers.
- One of the few NZ retail ISPs that operates its own AS with 45+ local points of presence rather than reselling on someone else's network.
Interesting
- Mercury is better known as an electricity generator/retailer; it grew its broadband arm substantially after absorbing Trustpower's retail base.
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 19 exchanges in 7 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.195.161 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.228.2 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.212.229 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.66 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.35 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.164 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.164 |
| Singapore Internet Exchange | Singapore, Singapore | 103.16.103.17 |
Transit providers
29 upstream, 31 downstream and 94 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 28 prefixes · 108K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS55850- Registry name
- MERCURYNZ-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Mercury NZ Limited
- Abuse contact
- noc@as55850.net
- Registered
- 2022-05-09
- Last changed
- 2022-05-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 31 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 35 authorising AS55850
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 31 of 31 announcements
- Route objects
- 58 naming AS55850
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: 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