Autonomous system
AS9880 NEXTGENNET-AS1-AU-AP NextGen.Net Pty Ltd, North Sydney
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
NextGen.Net
enterprise legacy
AS9880 (NEXTGENNET-AS1-AU-AP) is held by NextGen.Net Pty Ltd of North Sydney, an Australian technology company that builds lending software for the mortgage industry. Its ApplyOnline platform is used by Australian mortgage brokers and lenders to lodge and process home-loan applications electronically. Despite the .Net in the name, this is not an internet service provider.
What it's used for
The routing evidence describes a private corporate network, not a service provider. RIS sees 9 IPv4 prefixes carrying 57,856 addresses, no IPv6, and only 1 observed BGP neighbour. A single neighbour is decisive: the AS buys connectivity from one upstream and sells transit to nobody. The address count comes almost entirely from seven /19s carved out of the legacy 164.80.0.0/16 block, announced as separate pieces rather than as one aggregate, plus two small /24s in 203.33.x. That is a company with a large historical allocation running a platform behind it, not a network with 57,000 users.
Notable
- The name is a trap worth calling out.
NextGen.Netreads like a dial-up-era ISP handle, and the AS is in the low-9000s where ISPs cluster, but the organisation is a financial-technology vendor. This is exactly the case where reading the business off the handle produces a wrong answer. - Because the platform sits between brokers, aggregators and lenders, traffic to and from this AS is business-to-business application traffic — lodgement, document exchange, credit and open-banking integrations — rather than consumer eyeball traffic.
- The
164.80.0.0/16space is a legacy allocation; announcing it as seven /19s rather than one /16 is a deliberate routing choice, not a sign of fragmentation across owners.
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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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS1221 | Telstra Limited | 531 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 57.86K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9880- Registry name
- NEXTGENNET-AS1-AU-AP
- Registrant
- NextGen.Net Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- domain@nextgen.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 9 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9880
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 78% registered · 7 of 9 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS9880
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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