Autonomous system
AS9483 DPL-AS-AP Flatnet Networks
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Flatnet Networks
legacy
AS9483 is held by Flatnet Networks, a small New Zealand network registered to a Wellington postal address. Beyond the registry record there is very little public trace of the organisation, so this card describes what the routing shows rather than asserting a business it may or may not be in.
What it's used for
The AS originates a single IPv4 prefix, 202.50.109.0/24 — 256 addresses — and no IPv6. That is the smallest footprint an AS can meaningfully have: one legacy /24 out of New Zealand's 202.50/16 space, RPKI-valid, and nothing else.
One observed BGP neighbour, and it is an interesting one: the upstream is REANNZ, New Zealand's national research and education network. The AS is also seen at WIX, the Wellington Internet Exchange. A single /24 taking transit from the national REN and appearing at the Wellington exchange is not the shape of a commercial ISP or a hosting provider; it is the shape of a small organisation that wants its own provider-independent block and peers where it can. Research-and-education transit in particular is not something a general commercial network would normally be able to buy.
Notable
- The registry handle is inconsistent across databases — RIPEstat reports
DPL-AS-APwhile some sources showFLATNET-AS-NZ, which suggests the object was renamed at some point and the older acronym still lingers in mirrors. Neither handle should be read as evidence about the operator. - With one /24 and one upstream, no confident statement about the network's purpose is supportable from routing alone.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS38022 | REANNZ National Research and Education Network | 62 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9483- Registry name
- DPL-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Flatnet Networks
- Abuse contact
- noc@flatnet.gen.nz
- Registered
- 2022-12-13
- Last changed
- 2022-12-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS9483
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS9483
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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