Autonomous system
AS7642 DHIRAAGU-MV-AP DHIVEHI RAAJJEYGE GULHUN PLC
Residential APNIC
Summary
Dhiraagu (Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun PLC)
isp legacy
DHIRAAGU-MV-AP is Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun PLC, trading as Dhiraagu, the incumbent and largest telecommunications operator in the Maldives. AS7642 is the company's main autonomous system and, in practice, one of the two networks that carry the country's internet.
What it's used for
- National service across every product line Dhiraagu sells: fixed broadband, mobile, leased data and hosting. It is the only full-service telecoms operator in the Maldives, so a single AS ends up carrying all of it.
- Around 60,000 IPv4 addresses across roughly 130 mostly-
/23prefixes, plus IPv6 under2406:e400::/32. Every prefix is registeredDHIRAAGU-MVto the company itself. - Reverse DNS follows a residential-broadband pattern under the company's
dhivehinet.net.mvdomain, with names of the formbb-IP-ADDR.dhivehinet.net.mvon subscriber ranges.
Notable
- Eyeball space. An address here is most likely a Maldivian household or a phone, not a server. Because Dhiraagu runs fixed and mobile on the same AS, mobile traffic and home-broadband traffic are not separable by ASN.
- Geolocation to the Maldives is safe, but geolocation within the Maldives is not: the country is a thousand-odd islands and the operator moves address pools between atolls.
Interesting
- Some of Dhiraagu's inventory sits in
69.94.32.0/20and209.212.192.0/19, ranges that fall in/8s otherwise associated with the Americas. They are genuine legacy allocations held by an APNIC member. Anything that guesses a country from the/8will put the Maldives in North America.
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 4 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.158 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.75 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.167 |
| DE-CIX Mumbai | Mumbai, India | 103.27.171.153 |
Transit providers
35 upstream, 10 downstream and 63 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 60.42K addresses IPv6 43 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MV | Maldives | 60 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS7642- Registry name
- DHIRAAGU-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun Public Limited Company
- Abuse contact
- abuse@dhivehinet.net.mv
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2026-10-02
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.3% valid · 143 valid, 0 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 101 authorising AS7642
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.3% registered · 143 of 144 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 757 naming AS7642
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