Autonomous system
AS9714 VOCUS-CLOUD-SERVICES-AS - Vocus Cloud Services Australia
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Vocus (Cloud Services)
hosting isp legacy
AS9714 (VOCUS-CLOUD-SERVICES-AS) is held by Vocus, the Australian fibre and network operator headquartered in Melbourne. It is one of the group's downstream ASNs rather than its backbone: Vocus carries international transit on a separate AS, and this one holds hosting and static-assignment space.
What it's used for
RIS sees 10 IPv4 prefixes carrying 14,592 addresses, 7 IPv6 prefixes, and only 1 observed neighbour. The single neighbour is the tell that this is an internal AS of a larger group, taking all its connectivity from the parent backbone rather than peering in its own right, so its neighbour count says nothing about Vocus's overall reach. Reverse DNS is well populated and consistent: addresses across 116.240.192.0/20, 202.141.208.0/20 and 210.50.192.0/21 resolve as <dashed-ip>.static.vocuscloud.com.au, and 49.255.28.0/22 resolves under sta.ip.vocus.au. Those are static-assignment naming conventions, which fits a mix of hosted services and business customers with fixed addresses. The IPv6 side is real, not decorative: four /40s and several /48s out of 2407:dc00::/32, a Vocus allocation.
Notable
- Vocus sells fibre, broadband, voice and network services to businesses and government in Australia, and its consumer-facing brands sit elsewhere in the group.
- The legacy
210.50.0.0and202.xblocks here are old Australian address space, consistent with an AS that has absorbed inventory from earlier operators.
Interesting
Two of the /24s resolve under other operators' domains entirely: 202.138.0.5 is mel-switch.vic.hotkey.net.au and 203.213.51.x resolves under tpgi.com.au. That is a clean illustration of the rule that reverse DNS shows what a range carries and where it came from, never who holds the AS today.
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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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS4826 | Vocus Connect International Backbone | 852 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 14.59K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9714- Registry name
- VOCUS-CLOUD-SERVICES-AS
- Registrant
- VOCUS PTY LTD
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@vocus.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-10-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 76% valid · 13 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 21 authorising AS9714
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS9714
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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