AS11938 — NCRYPTD

AS11938 announces 0 IPv4 prefixes covering 0 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ABANTU is held by NCRYPTD LLC, a Wilmington, Delaware entity tied to NCRYPTD NET, a small IP transit, connectivity and colocation operator that also runs several RIPE-registered ASNs. The routed footprint here is minimal: an IPv6-only network with a single prefix.

What it's used for

RIS sees no IPv4 at all and exactly one IPv6 prefix, 2602:29f:119::/48, with one observed BGP neighbour. That neighbour is AS37739, Abantu Cloud Africa (Pty) Ltd, which is also the ASN's handle. So the AS is single-homed behind Abantu and the two are evidently related, which explains a name that would otherwise look like an unexplained third party.

What the /48 actually carries is not visible in the evidence. No IPv4 addresses exist to sample, and there is no reverse-DNS or registrant material in the pack to lean on. Given the holder is a transit and colocation provider rather than an end user, hosted or network-infrastructure use is the reasonable reading, but it is an inference from who the operator is, not an observation of the space, and the classification is held at low confidence for that reason.

Notable

The AS number is recycled. Registry data records this ASN as issued in January 2023, so nothing about it dates to the early internet despite the low number. It is also one of the few genuinely IPv6-only autonomous systems in this range: a single /48 and no IPv4 announcement whatsoever.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 2602:29f:119::/48

Upstream networks

• AS37739 Abantu Cloud Africa (Pty) Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS37739 Abantu Cloud Africa (Pty) Ltd