AS893

AS893 is an actively announcing Internet Exchange Point (IXP) operator ASN, registered to Ninja-IX Foundation, a Phoenix, Arizona nonprofit, and currently announcing one IPv4 /24 (23.137.88.0/24) plus three IPv6 blocks, with every announced prefix validating RPKI-valid as of August 2026.

The ASN traces to two related nonprofit entities. Ninja-IX Corporation, an Arizona not-for-profit established in 2014, built and still documents the exchange's services, markets, and peering policy on ninja-ix.net. Ninja-IX Foundation, incorporated March 2022 with approved IRS 501(c)(3) status, is the entity ARIN RDAP lists as AS893's current registrant of record.

Ninja-IX's own site states exchange operations were slated to migrate from the Corporation to the Foundation "during 2023." Neither official site confirms that migration completed; which entity operationally runs AS893's network as of this August 2026 check is unresolved, so both names are recorded here.

On the wire, AS893 sits near-fully visible in RIS (326/327 IPv4 peers, 321/321 IPv6), ranks 11,670 in CAIDA's global AS ranking, and carries a customer cone of two ASNs including Ninja-IX Corporation's own AS12233. Its single identifiable transit upstream is Hurricane Electric (AS6939), corroborated independently by bgp.he.net and bgp.tools, alongside settlement-free peering at FCIX and a Ninja-IX Bay Area exchange point.

PeeringDB lists an open peering policy: prospective members must originate at least a /24 IPv4 and/or /56 IPv6 block via BGP4, hold a registrar-assigned ASN, maintain matching IRR records, and connect to the exchange's route servers and looking glass; RPKI signing is encouraged but not required. Connection carries a one-time fee plus annual, market-scaled port fees, and the operator is explicit that "peering is not transit."

Operator

Two related nonprofits — Ninja-IX Foundation (ARIN registrant of record, incorporated March 2022, IRS 501(c)(3) approved) and Ninja-IX Corporation (Arizona not-for-profit, established 2014, operates the current documentation site)

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/893, ninja-ix.net/Foundation.html

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — RIPEstat authoritative_rir field for AS893

Allocated

2022-06-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, eventDate 2022-06-07T14:00:17-04:00) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/893 (fetched independently by two research angles, cross-checked against bgp.he.net and bgp.tools third-party dates which disagreed and were not used)

Org status

Ninja-IX Corporation (Arizona not-for-profit, established 2014, OIX-1 certified via Open-IX, ARIN member) and Ninja-IX Foundation (incorporated March 2022, IRS 501(c)(3) approved, current ARIN registrant of record, status Active) [Confirmed]; a Corporation-to-Foundation operational migration planned "during 2023" has unconfirmed completion status as of this check

[Unknown] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/893, ninja-ix.net/Foundation.html

Contacts

sole ARIN POC of record is EMMON3-ARIN (roles technical/abuse/administrative, status validated), Paul Emmons, Founder; registrant org Ninja-IX Foundation, handle NF-203, 530 E McDowell Rd, PMB 107-605, Phoenix, AZ 85004; Kate Gerry, Operations Support (switching operations)

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/893, ninja-ix.net/People.html

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — absent from Spamhaus ASN-DROP (2026/08/10 edition); a dedicated threat-intel page reports zero honeypot sightings; several major reputation feeds (Talos, GreyNoise, Cloudflare Radar, AbuseIPDB, URLhaus, NANOG archives) were inaccessible (HTTP 403 or JS-only rendering) during this check and are not treated as corroborating negatives [Likely] — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.txt, jamesbrine.com.au/as893-ninja-ix-foundation-asn-threat-intelligence-and-network-information/

Network & routing

Network type

Internet Exchange Point (IXP) operator; nonprofit peering fabric providing route servers, bilateral peering, AS112 and root-server hosting, and private VLANs [Confirmed] — ninja-ix.net/Services.html, peeringdb.com/asn/893

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses (23.137.88.0/24); 3 IPv6 prefixes (2602:fb61::/40, 2602:fb61:10::/48, 2001:470:3b6::/48); CAIDA customer cone = 2 ASNs, 5 prefixes, 1,280 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat announced-prefixes, CAIDA AS Rank API (2026-08)

Routing/peering

near-full RIS visibility (326/327 IPv4 peers, 321/321 IPv6 peers); CAIDA degree total 4 (customer 1, peer 2, provider 1); upstream AS6939 (Hurricane Electric) [Likely]; observed peers include AS12233, AS52025, AS400587, AS60011, AS42615, AS199518, AS35008, AS36236

[Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS893, bgp.tools/as/893, api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/893

RPKI

all 4 announced prefixes validate RPKI-valid (routinator, mixed=false); a separate covering ROA for 2001:470::/32 held by AS6939 shows invalid_asn against AS893's more-specific announcement but does not affect AS893's own valid status [Confirmed]

Notable usage

no specific traffic volumes or usage milestones found on official sites; PeeringDB lists traffic ratio "Balanced," levels "Not Disclosed." Founder Paul Emmons's claim of having "founded and implemented ... the largest Internet Exchange in Phoenix" is a self-description, not independently verified

[Likely] — peeringdb.com/asn/893, ninja-ix.net/People.html

Related ASNs

AS12233 (Ninja-IX Corporation, downstream in AS893's customer cone) [Confirmed]; AS6939 (Hurricane Electric, upstream transit) [Likely]

Analyst note

encountered as a small, single-region (Phoenix, AZ) IXP-operator ASN with a clean, fully RPKI-valid announcement set and near-total RIS visibility. Registrant-of-record ambiguity between Ninja-IX Foundation (ARIN record) and Ninja-IX Corporation (operating site) is unresolved and left as an open item rather than guessed.