Autonomous system
AS9443 VOCUS-RETAIL-AU Vocus Retail
Residential APNIC
Summary
Vocus Retail (Dodo / iPrimus / Commander)
isp residential legacy
AS9443 (VOCUS-RETAIL-AU) is held by Vocus, the Australian telecommunications group, and carries its retail consumer and small-business customers — the Dodo, iPrimus and Commander brands. It is not Vocus's wholesale backbone: it is the eyeball network hanging off it.
What it's used for
This is one of the larger Australian access networks. The AS originates 47 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,153,024 addresses, plus 3 IPv6 /32s (2403:4800::/32, 2403:fc00::/32, 2403:9e00::/32). The IPv4 inventory is dominated by whole /16s — 139.216, 139.218, 58.179, 111.220, 122.151, 125.168, 211.26, 112.141, 122.148, 210.50, 211.27, 58.178, 122.150, 116.240 — the large subscriber aggregates a broadband provider needs to number hundreds of thousands of home connections.
The reverse DNS is the clincher and reads like a brand inventory: sta.dodo.net.au and dyn.dodo.net.au, dsl.syd.iprimus.net.au and dsl.mel.iprimus.net.au, sta.commander.net.au, sta.wbroadband.net.au, sta.onestream.net.au, and Vocus's own ip.vocus.network. Static (sta) and dynamic (dyn) subscriber pools, city-tagged DSL names, several retail brands sharing one pool of space. And against that million-plus addresses, only 1 observed BGP neighbour — the retail AS reaches the internet through its parent group's backbone rather than peering in its own right. Big address count, no peering fabric: an eyeball network, not a carrier.
Notable
- Dodo, iPrimus and Commander are all Vocus retail brands; their subscriber space is numbered out of this single AS.
- Vocus is privately held (Macquarie Asset Management and Aware Super) and in 2025 completed the purchase of TPG's fibre network, making the group a major Australian infrastructure owner.
- The one-neighbour figure is a role signal, not a weakness: the peering happens on Vocus's backbone AS, which sits in front of this one.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX Australia (Sydney NSW) | Sydney, Australia | 2001:7fa:11:4:0:24e3:0:1 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS4826 | Vocus Connect International Backbone | 2,867 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 64 prefixes · 1.14M addresses IPv6 10 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 74 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9443- Registry name
- VOCUS-RETAIL-AU
- Registrant
- VOCUS PTY LTD
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@vocus.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2026-06-03
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 50 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 67 authorising AS9443
- ASPA
- 1 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 50 of 50 announcements
- Route objects
- 58 naming AS9443
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: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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