Autonomous system
AS9919 NCIC-TW New Century InfoComm Tech Co., Ltd.
Residential DROP-listed space APNIC
Summary
New Century InfoComm Tech (Sparq / SEEDNet)
isp residential legacy
AS9919 (NCIC-TW) is held by New Century InfoComm Tech Co., Ltd. (新世紀資通), a Taiwanese fixed-line telecom operator. NCIC was set up by the Far Eastern Group and took a fixed-network licence in 2001; it trades under the Sparq (速博) and SEEDNet brands, and Far EasTone Telecommunications acquired it outright in 2010. It remains one of Taiwan's significant non-Chunghwa fixed-line and broadband providers.
What it's used for
This is the eyeball network. RIS sees 853 IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 700,000 addresses, 16 IPv6 prefixes including a large 2401:8000::/27, and only 3 observed BGP neighbours. That last number is the one that settles the role. Seven hundred thousand addresses is a national-scale access pool, but a wholesale carrier holding that much space would peer with hundreds of networks; three neighbours means AS9919 exists to carry NCIC's own subscribers, with its parent group handling the transit and peering relationships.
Reverse DNS is uniform, self-owned and unambiguous, all under sparqnet.net. The templates split neatly into two populations: dynamic access lines named adsl-218-211-0-5.sparqnet.net, and statically assigned addresses named 122-146-0-5.static.sparqnet.net. Regional labels appear in the middle of the names (nh, tc, ll, n1), so the naming encodes the access region as well as the line type. That is exactly the naming discipline of a broadband ISP, not a hosting or transit network.
Notable
- The v4 space is heavily deaggregated: the same blocks are announced as
/15s,/16s and/17s simultaneously, a common traffic-engineering habit at large access ISPs. - SEEDNet, one of Taiwan's oldest ISP brands, was merged into NCIC in 2009 and the brand was kept.
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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 736 prefixes · 505K addresses IPv6 73 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TW | Taiwan, Province of China | 809 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9919- Registry name
- NCIC-TW
- Abuse contact
- antispam@seed.net.tw
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2025-11-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.9% valid · 860 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 149 authorising AS9919
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.7% registered · 858 of 861 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 7,113 naming AS9919
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
2 DROP matches Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 103.193.184.0/22 | 103.193.184.0/22 | SBL650046 |
| 107.155.224.0/22 | 107.155.224.0/22 | SBL616009 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
2 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
123.51.223.96 | Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data | 2026-10-08 |
123.51.237.194 | Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data | 2026-10-08 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere