AS894

AS894 (NINJA-IX-SERVICES-ASN) is a small, active ASN registered to Ninja-IX Services LLC that announces one IPv4 /24 and IPv6 space anchored at a /40, all of it RPKI-valid. It operates as a limited-transit adjunct to the nonprofit Ninja-IX internet exchange fabric rather than as that fabric's primary route-server ASN, which is AS53698.

ARIN RDAP records AS894's autnum registration event on 2022-06-07 (14:02:08 UTC-4), with an identical last-changed timestamp, meaning the ASN has not been re-registered since. The registrant, Ninja-IX Services LLC (ARIN handle NSL-380), lists an address at 530 E McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ, matching the CAIDA-geolocated coordinates. Autnum status is active.

Routing data is thin but consistent: RIPEstat shows one announced IPv4 prefix (23.137.82.0/24, 256 addresses) and IPv6 space at 2602:fb5d::/40 plus an explicit /48. CAIDA ranks the ASN 59,977 globally, with a singleton customer cone (itself, 1 prefix, 256 addresses), 0 inferred upstreams, and 6 inferred peers; bgp.he.net separately observes 8 peer sessions including Hurricane Electric, GSL Networks, and NetActuate.

The corporate relationship between registrant Ninja-IX Services LLC and Ninja-IX Corporation, the not-for-profit IXP operator behind AS53698, AS35940, and AS400047, is not spelled out in operator-published text. PeeringDB's operator-submitted notes describe AS894 as a "Limited transit provider for the Ninja-Connect product," which appears to sit outside Ninja-IX Corporation's own stated no-transit, no-data-center scope — a gap worth independent confirmation rather than an established fact.

All three of AS894's announced prefixes validate as RPKI-valid (routinator) as of the 2026-08-09 RIPEstat query, with no mixed or invalid statuses recorded.

Exposure

minimal — AS894 originates a single /24 plus limited IPv6 space, and ipinfo.io classifies the ASN type as ISP rather than hosting or eyeball, consistent with peering/exchange-adjacent infrastructure.

Abuse signal

none found — CleanTalk reports 0 spam-active IPs and a 0.00% spam rate as of an August 2026 search.

Threat-feed coverage

unverifiable — Spamhaus, Talos Intelligence, and AbuseIPDB all returned HTTP 403 as of an August 2026 search, and BGPStream failed to connect, so those feeds record Unknown rather than clean.

OTX indicators

none on record — AlienVault OTX's ASN indicator endpoint returned 404 for AS894 as of an August 2026 search.

NANOG mentions

no thread naming AS894 directly was found; a 2020 thread on Phoenix-IX/Ninja-IX operational reachability names the same contact (Paul Emmons) currently listed on AS894's RDAP record, but describes an operational, not a security, concern.

Operator

Ninja-IX Services LLC (ARIN handle NSL-380, Phoenix, AZ) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NSL-380

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/894

Allocated

2022-06-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, 14:02:08 UTC-4); last changed same date [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/894

Org status

active (ARIN autnum status) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/894

Contacts

Peering role contact on file (ARIN handle PEERI30-ARIN, vCard kind=group, org Ninja-IX Services) — peering@ninja-ix.org, +1-602-688-6414; registrant contact Paul Emmons (ARIN handle EMMON3-ARIN); registrant address 530 E McDowell Road, PMB 107-605, Phoenix, AZ 85004

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/PEERI30-ARIN, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/EMMON3-ARIN

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — CleanTalk reports a 0.00% spam rate; Spamhaus, Talos, and AbuseIPDB were unverifiable (HTTP 403); AlienVault OTX has no indicators on record — https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/AS894

Network & routing

Network type

limited-transit ASN for the "Ninja-Connect" product, adjunct to the nonprofit Ninja-IX exchange fabric; not the fabric's primary route-server ASN (that is AS53698) [Likely] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=894, https://as53698.net

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses (23.137.82.0/24); IPv6 anchored at 2602:fb5d::/40 plus an explicit /48; customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat / CAIDA ASRank (2026-08)

Routing/peering

0 CAIDA-inferred upstreams; 6 CAIDA-inferred peers vs. 4 RIPEstat-observed neighbours (methodology discrepancy, range stated); bgp.he.net independently observes 8 peer sessions including Hurricane Electric, GSL Networks, and NetActuate [Confirmed]. PeeringDB peering policy: Open, no ratio or contract requirement [Likely]

RPKI

fully valid — all 3 announced prefixes validate (routinator) as of RIPEstat query 2026-08-09 [Confirmed]

Notable usage

linked to the Ninja-IX regional internet exchange family (e.g. Phoenix-IX); self-reported PeeringDB notes state it operates at EdgeConneX Phoenix, H5 Chandler, and PhoenixNAP facilities [Likely] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=894

Related ASNs

AS53698 (Ninja-IX Corporation's route-server/exchange ASN); also AS35940, AS400047 [Confirmed for the AS53698 family per as53698.net; Likely for the exact corporate link to AS894's registrant]

Analyst note

Registrant "Ninja-IX Services LLC" is related to but distinct from "Ninja-IX Corporation," the not-for-profit IXP operator whose own site states it does not sell transit. PeeringDB's operator-submitted description of AS894 as a limited-transit ASN for "Ninja-Connect" therefore describes an activity that appears to sit outside the parent brand's stated scope — flagged for confirmation, not asserted as settled fact.