Autonomous system
AS9559 PLAINCOM-NZ Plain Communications Ltd
Unclassified APNIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Plain Communications
isp hosting business legacy
AS9559 (PLAINCOM-NZ) is held by Plain Communications Ltd, a long-established independent internet provider based in Canterbury, on New Zealand's South Island. The company sells internet connectivity to personal and business customers along with web hosting, web design and related services, and it describes itself as the oldest full ISP in Canterbury.
What it's used for
This is a small regional ISP that is also a web host, and the reverse DNS shows both halves of the business plainly. RIS sees 8 IPv4 prefixes carrying 2,560 addresses, with no IPv6: 202.49.64.0/21 as the anchor, several /24s carved out of it (202.49.66.0, 202.49.68.0 through 202.49.71.0), plus 202.49.140.0/24 and 202.36.174.0/24 from New Zealand's legacy 202.x allocations.
The sampled addresses resolve two ways. Some carry generic per-address names — 202-49-70-5.plain.net.nz, 202-49-66-133.plain.net.nz — which is how an ISP labels customer connections and statically assigned addresses. Others are named servers and hosted websites: osol1.plain.net.nz, monotony.plain.co.nz, and customer sites like www.backpack.co.nz and www.ate.co.nz sitting directly on the provider's space. That mix is characteristic of an older, full-service ISP that never split its access and hosting businesses onto separate networks.
Three BGP neighbours on 2,560 addresses is a modest, sensible amount of interconnection for a provider of this size: enough upstreams for resilience, no ambition to sell transit.
Notable
- Plain was among the first New Zealand providers to offer commercial web hosting, which is consistent with customer websites still living on its own address space.
- No IPv6 is announced from this AS.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Auckland Peering Exchange | Auckland, New Zealand | 192.203.154.12 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-24, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 2.56K addresses IPv6 14 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 21 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9559- Registry name
- PLAINCOM-NZ
- Registrant
- One New Zealand Group Limited
- Abuse contact
- PlanningandDesign.Networks@one.nz
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2023-04-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Plain Communications
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.plain.co.nz/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS9559
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS9559
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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