AS9898 IQHIVE-AS-AP IQ Hive Limited

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.x allocation 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.