Autonomous system
AS983 AKARI-NETWORKS
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Akari Networks LLC
hosting legacy
A hosting and network provider (AKARI-NETWORKS) with extensive peering across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
What it's used for
- Hosting and IP transit, with peering points in cities including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, London, and Los Angeles.
Notable
- A commercial hosting network with wide international peering, not an eyeball ISP.
- A low, three-digit AS number from the internet's early sequential allocations, now reassigned to its current holder.
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 10 exchanges in 6 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.231.90 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.116.109 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.230.208 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.90.87 |
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.92.35 |
| JPIX Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 210.171.225.217 |
| Singapore Internet Exchange | Singapore, Singapore | 103.16.103.30 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 2001:de8:7::983:1 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 31 downstream and 78 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS983- Registry name
- AKARI-NETWORKS
- Registrant
- Akari Networks LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse+arin@akari.hk
- Registered
- 2022-06-27
- Last changed
- 2022-06-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS983
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 29 naming AS983
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: 442 networks and 1,772 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