AS854

AS854 is a currently-unannounced Internet Exchange Point ASN, registered with ARIN under the name MINNEAPOLIS-IXP to Richmond-IX Corporation, whose live infrastructure is publicly branded as Ninja-IX. As of an August 2026 routing check, AS854 announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes and shows no BGP peers, upstreams, or customers.

ARIN RDAP records AS854's top-level autnum registration event as 2022-06-16, with a last-changed date of 2023-04-24. PeeringDB categorizes the network as a route server with an Open peering policy, and the operator's own site requires participants to originate at least a /24 IPv4 and/or /56 IPv6 block via BGP4. CAIDA ranks the ASN 79,459 globally, with a customer cone limited to itself.

The link between the ARIN registrant "Richmond-IX Corporation" and the publicly marketed "Ninja-IX Corporation" is not confirmed by any official source; it rests only on a shared contact, Paul Emmons, whose ninja-ix.net email address appears in both the ARIN record and the operator's own site. Ninja-IX Corporation describes itself as an Arizona not-for-profit founded in 2014, later paired with a 2022 501(c)(3) Foundation intended to absorb its exchanges.

Two mismatched historical records complicate the picture. RIPEstat shows an unrelated 2000-era BGP history under AS854 (prefixes 142.176.0.0/16 and 198.167.96.0/24) that predates the current registration by roughly 22 years, and third-party CIRCL BGP Ranking data shows the number briefly associated with a Canadian "GONET-ASN-16" label from 2018 to 2020 before a reserved/unassigned gap and the 2022 reassignment. Neither earlier record is attributable to Richmond-IX or Ninja-IX.

Operator

ARIN registrant Richmond-IX Corporation (handle RC-983); publicly branded and operated as Ninja-IX Corporation (ninja-ix.net) [Confirmed for the ARIN registrant; Likely for the Richmond-IX↔Ninja-IX link, tied only by shared contact Paul Emmons] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/854, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/854

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/854

Allocated

2022-06-16 (ARIN RDAP top-level autnum registration event); last changed 2023-04-24 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/854

Org status

Ninja-IX Corporation describes itself as an Arizona not-for-profit founded 2014, paired with a 2022 501(c)(3) Ninja-IX Foundation intended to absorb its exchanges during 2023; whether Richmond-IX Corporation itself (AS854's actual ARIN registrant) carries not-for-profit status is Unknown [Likely for Ninja-IX Corporation's status; Unknown for Richmond-IX Corporation's status] — https://ninja-ix.net/Foundation.html

Contacts

No publishable contact: the sole ARIN POC (EMMON3-ARIN) is an individual-kind vCard, withheld per policy; no group/role mailbox exists on the record. 530 E McDowell Road, Suite 107-605, Phoenix, AZ 85004, US [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/854

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-08 — not on the Spamhaus ASN-DROP list, and no NANOG-archive or general-web abuse mentions found; several dedicated reputation tools (Talos, AbuseIPDB, Spamhaus's checker, URLhaus) blocked automated fetch (HTTP 403) and remain unverified

Network & routing

Network type

Internet Exchange Point (IXP) / route server; PeeringDB categorizes AS854's network type as "Route Server" [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/854, https://ninja-ix.net/

Size

0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 prefixes currently announced; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses; CAIDA AS rank 79,459 [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS854, https://bgp.he.net/AS854, https://bgp.tools/as/854, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/854

Routing/peering

not currently announced (0/327 IPv4 and 0/322 IPv6 RIS peers see it); 0 upstreams and 0 live peers per CAIDA degree counts; bgp.tools lists AS-SET co-memberships (as854:as-customers with 6 ASNs, as-mttac with 4 ASNs) but no live BGP sessions; PeeringDB peering policy is Open, requiring at least a /24 IPv4 and/or /56 IPv6 block via BGP4 [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS854, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/854, https://bgp.tools/as/854, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/854, https://ninja-ix.net/Services.html

RPKI

not assessable — zero announced prefixes means no ROAs to validate [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS854

Notable usage

no independent AS854-specific traffic figures are published; the parent operator's services span metro peering fabric, AS112/root-server hosting, and private VLANs across markets including Phoenix, Richmond, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, and others; despite the "MINNEAPOLIS-IXP" name, CAIDA does not flag AS854 as an active IXP/peering-LAN ASN

[Likely] — https://ninja-ix.net/Services.html, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/854

Related ASNs

no specific related ASNs confirmed by name; AS854 co-appears in two AS-SETs (as854:as-customers with 6 member ASNs, as-mttac with 4 member ASNs) whose individual members were not enumerated in this pass [Unknown] — https://bgp.tools/as/854

Analyst note

historical routing activity recorded under AS854 predates and is unrelated to the current registrant — RIPEstat shows 2000-era prefixes (142.176.0.0/16, 198.167.96.0/24) roughly 22 years before the 2022 ARIN registration, and third-party CIRCL BGP Ranking data shows a distinct 2018–2020 "GONET-ASN-16" (Canada) association before a reserved gap and reassignment; neither predates or otherwise attaches to the current Richmond-IX/Ninja-IX holding [Confirmed for the RIPEstat/CIRCL source data; Likely for the interpretation] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS854, https://bgpranking.circl.lu/asn?asn=854