Autonomous system
AS9942 COMINDICO-AP SOUL Converged Communications Australia
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
TPG (ex-comindico / Soul Converged Communications)
isp residential business legacy
AS9942 (COMINDICO-AP) is registered as SOUL Converged Communications Australia and is maintained today by TPG Internet Pty Ltd (MAINT-AU-TPGCOM). The handle, the registered name and the current maintainer are three different companies, and all three are still visible in the network — this is one of the clearest examples in the AS range of an inherited network that never got renamed.
What it's used for
The reverse DNS reads like a corporate archaeology dig. Sampled addresses resolve under comindico.com.au (fe2-0-201.wsr03-kent-syd, acc05-dryb-mel — Sydney and Melbourne access routers), under soulaustralia.com.au, under sptel.com.au, and under tpgi.com.au for the subscriber-style names such as 203-194-0-5.static.tpgi.com.au. Those are four ownership generations of the same Australian carrier estate, all still answering in the same routed space.
RIS sees 24 IPv4 prefixes covering 176,640 addresses, anchored on 203.220.0.0/15 plus 203.194.0.0/18, 202.168.0.0/18 and the 125.254.0.0/19. One IPv6 prefix, 2404:2800::/32, is announced. The mix of static.tpgi.com.au and unassigned. PTRs is an access-network pattern: pools of customer addresses, some allocated statically, some idle. Only 2 observed neighbours, which is the giveaway that this is no longer an independent carrier — it takes transit from inside the TPG group rather than peering on its own account.
Notable
- comindico was an Australian wholesale carrier whose network passed to the Soul brand and then into TPG; the ASN survived every step.
- The
wsr/acc/isdrouter names in the PTRs are the original comindico backbone naming scheme, still in service.
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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 36 prefixes · 15.10K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 37 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9942- Registry name
- AAPT-AS-AP
- Registrant
- AAPT Limited
- Abuse contact
- ipnoc@aapt.com.au
- Registered
- 2026-06-18
- Last changed
- 2026-06-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 46 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9942
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 72% registered · 33 of 46 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 82 naming AS9942
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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