AS850

AS850 is a dormant Internet Exchange route-server ASN, registered under ARIN as JACKSONVILLE-IXP to Richmond-IX Corporation (org handle RC-983), the legal entity behind the public brand Ninja-IX. As of an August 2026 check it announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, a finding on which RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, and bgp.tools all agree — this ASN carries no live routes.

Ninja-IX operates dozens of metro/route-server ASNs as a non-profit peering fabric rather than transit, data-center, or CDN infrastructure; AS850 is registered in PeeringDB with info_type "Route Server" and 0 announced prefixes. Notably, "Jacksonville" does not appear on the operator's current Markets.html page, which instead lists Auburn, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Norfolk, Phoenix, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Hawaii, and Bahamas — an unexplained naming/market mismatch.

RDAP records the autnum's top-level registration event as 2022-06-16 (last changed 2023-04-24), independently corroborated by bgp.tools. RIPEstat separately shows one historical routing observation of 91.220.225.0/24 under AS850 on 2011-05-21 — a date that predates the RDAP registration event — with zero RIS peers seeing any announcement since; no operator-official source explains this gap.

CAIDA ranks AS850 79,459 with a singleton customer cone (itself, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses) and 0/0/0/0 total/customer/peer/provider degree, meaning no visible upstreams or peers. RPKI cannot be assessed because there are no announced prefixes to validate against ROAs. The operator's general peering policy is Open, requiring a registrar-issued /24 (v4) and/or /56 (v6) with matching IRR route objects, per ninja-ix.net/Services.html.

Operator

Richmond-IX Corporation (ARIN org handle RC-983, Phoenix, AZ) — the registrant behind the public brand Ninja-IX (PeeringDB org 7483) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/850, rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/RC-983

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/850

Allocated

2022-06-16 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event); last changed 2023-04-24 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/850, corroborated by bgp.tools/as/850

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP autnum status array; registrant is Richmond-IX Corporation, an Arizona not-for-profit (est. 2014) operating publicly as Ninja-IX [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/850, ninja-ix.net/Foundation.html

Contacts

no publishable abuse/admin/tech contact — the sole ARIN POC (EMMON3-ARIN, Paul Emmons) is an individual, not a role mailbox, so per this pipeline's contact rule his email/phone are withheld; only the registrant org (Richmond-IX Corporation, RC-983) is published

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/EMMON3-ARIN

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-08 — Spamhaus blocklist page silent, NANOG MARC zero hits; AbuseIPDB/Talos blocked (403, coverage gap) and CleanTalk/VirusTotal inconclusive (empty shells); read as a weak negative since the ASN has never been observed routing traffic

Network & routing

Network type

non-profit Internet Exchange route-server ASN; PeeringDB info_type "Route Server", one of ~30+ metro ASNs registered by the same operator (no transit, data-center, or CDN services per operator's own Foundation page) [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=850, ninja-ix.net/Foundation.html

Size

never routed — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net (AS850), api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/850, bgp.he.net/AS850, bgp.tools/as/850

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0/327 RIS peers see it on v4, 0/322 on v6; CAIDA degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); no upstreams or peers in any source [Confirmed]. Operator's general peering policy is Open: registrar-issued /24 v4 and/or /56 v6, matching IRR route objects, RPKI "preferred but not mandatory"

[Confirmed for policy framework] — peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=850, ninja-ix.net/Services.html

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, so no ROAs exist to validate [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net (AS850), bgp.tools/as/850

Notable usage

none documented beyond the JACKSONVILLE-IXP registration itself; as of an August 2026 check "Jacksonville" is absent from the operator's live Markets.html page/nav, a discrepancy with the ASN's registered name that is unexplained by any operator-official source [Confirmed for the absence; Unknown for the reason] — ninja-ix.net/Markets.html, rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/850. Separately, RIPEstat records a single historical announcement of 91.220.225.0/24 under AS850 on 2011-05-21, a date preceding the 2022-06-16 RDAP registration event, with no announcements seen since [Confirmed for the observation; Unknown for its relationship to the current registration] — stat.ripe.net (AS850 routing-status)

Related ASNs

sibling IXP route-server ASNs registered by the same operator, e.g. AS847 (SANTACLARA-IXP), AS848 (NINJA-IX-MEMPHIS), AS849 [Confirmed for existence of sibling ASNs under the same operator; Likely for the full extent of the block] — peeringdb.com/api/org/7483

Analyst note

AS850 is a never-routed IXP route-server registration whose ARIN name (JACKSONVILLE-IXP) does not match any market on the operator's current live site, and whose sole RIPEstat routing history entry (2011-05-21) predates its own 2022-06-16 RDAP registration event — both left as open, sourced discrepancies rather than resolved by inference.