Autonomous system
AS9898 IQHIVE-AS-AP - IQ Hive Limited
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
IQ Hive
enterprise hosting legacy
AS9898 (IQHIVE-AS-AP) is registered to IQ Hive Limited, an Auckland-based software and digital-services company. Note the mismatch worth knowing about up front: the ASN and its address space are early APNIC-era objects, while the company holding them is a much more recent New Zealand business. The registration has moved; the numbers have not.
What it's used for
RIS sees 7 IPv4 prefixes carrying 3,072 addresses, no IPv6, and 1 observed BGP neighbour. The space is a single legacy range — 202.36.16.0/21 and 202.36.24.0/22 — announced both as aggregates and as their constituent /24s, behind one upstream. That is a small, self-contained service network, not an access provider. The reverse DNS says what it does. Several addresses resolve as ebillsmtp165.iqhive.com and fwdsmtp185.iqhive.com: a bank of outbound mail servers, named for electronic billing and mail forwarding. The remaining sampled addresses resolve under splice.net.nz, a New Zealand provider's generated PTR format, which is what the space carries around the company's own hosts.
Notable
- The mail-server naming is a strong signal about how this AS behaves on the network: it is a sender of transactional email at some volume. Addresses here are infrastructure, not end users.
- The combination of a low-numbered ASN, an old
202.36.xallocation and a recently founded holder is a reminder that ASN age tells you nothing about the age of the organisation currently behind it. - With one neighbour and 3,072 addresses, this AS provides transit to nobody and hosts nothing at consumer scale.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-03, 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 · 3.07K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9898- Registry name
- IQHIVE-AS-AP
- Registrant
- IQ Hive Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@iqhive.com
- Registered
- 2022-12-22
- Last changed
- 2024-03-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS9898
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 534 naming AS9898
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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