AS9889 TWO-DEGREES-AS-AP Two Degrees Mobile Limited

AS9889 (TWO-DEGREES-AS-AP) is registered to Two Degrees Mobile Limited — 2degrees, New Zealand's third-largest telco. 2degrees began as a mobile challenger and became a full-service operator after its 2022 merger with Vocus New Zealand, which brought the Orcon, Slingshot and related fixed-broadband businesses into the same company.

What it's used for

Do not read "Mobile" in the name as a description of the traffic. RIS sees 14 IPv4 prefixes carrying 33,280 addresses, 1 IPv6 prefix (2401:5c00::/32), and 1 observed BGP neighbour — a single upstream, which for a telco this size means AS9889 is a subordinate AS hanging off the group's main network rather than the group's border. The reverse DNS is where the story is: sampled addresses resolve under vocus.co.nz (including the operator's default-rdns placeholder and an Auckland core router), maxnet.net.nz and maxnet.co.nz colocation and mail hosts, splice.net.nz, nakedplus.co.nz static customer addresses and assorted hosted business domains. That is fixed-line and hosting heritage absorbed through the Vocus NZ side of the merger, not handset space.

Notable

• The address space carries a genuine mix — ISP-style static customer PTRs alongside colocated mail servers and business hosting — so an address in this AS may belong to a broadband customer or to a hosted server. Treat per-address inferences carefully.
• The default-rdns.vocus.co.nz PTRs are a useful tell: they are what the merged operator's DNS hands out when nothing more specific is configured, and they mark space that is administratively Vocus NZ's regardless of the registered AS name.
• Legacy 202.89.x, 203.89.x and 210.55.x blocks appear alongside 123.100.64.0/18, reflecting an operator assembled from several older New Zealand networks.