Autonomous system
AS9269 HKBN-AS-AP Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN)
isp residential legacy
AS9269 (HKBN-AS-AP) is held by Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd., one of Hong Kong's largest residential broadband and telecom providers. It grew out of City Telecom (HK), whose ctinets.com domain still names the subscriber space.
What it's used for
This is a consumer eyeball network. It announces roughly 188 IPv4 prefixes totalling about 1.7 million addresses, and every sampled reverse-DNS record follows the IP-encoded subscriber-pool pattern NNNNNNNNNNNN.ctinets.com (for example 014136137001.ctinets.com) that HKBN uses across its residential and small-business access blocks. The address count is large while the observed neighbour count (about 154) is moderate, the signature of a big access network serving its own subscribers rather than a wholesale transit carrier.
Notable
- The
ctinets.comreverse-DNS domain is a City Telecom legacy; City Telecom's fixed-line business was rebranded as Hong Kong Broadband Network. - The prefix mix spans several APNIC ranges (
59.148/16,61.92/16,61.238/18,123.1/17,210.6.128/18and more), reflecting years of accumulated consumer allocations. - HKBN has been an established Hong Kong ISP since the early 2000s; the AS has been announcing space since 2000.
Interesting
HKBN built its reputation on aggressive fibre-to-the-home rollout across Hong Kong high-rise residential estates, which is why the subscriber space is both large and densely numbered.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 16 exchanges in 8 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.213 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.19 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.117 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.213 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.90.47 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.194 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.194 |
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.91.34 |
Transit providers
43 upstream, 2 downstream and 67 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 360 prefixes · 1.49M addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 361 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9269- Registry name
- HKBN-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@hkbn.com.hk
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-07-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 208 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 64 authorising AS9269
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 208 of 208 announcements
- Route objects
- 26,498 naming AS9269
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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