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AS7500 WIDE Project

AS7500 (M-ROOT-DNS) is registered to WIDE Project in JP, through APNIC. It originates 5 prefixes in the global routing table.

4
IPv4 prefixes
1
IPv6 prefixes
1,024
IPv4 addresses
60%
RPKI valid

Who holds AS7500

Names from RIPE NCC’s daily list of every allocated AS number. The ASN lookup fetches the full WHOIS record live.

AS number
AS7500
Handle
M-ROOT-DNS
Organization
WIDE Project
Country
JP
Registry
APNIC
ASPA
None published
WHOIS recordAPNIC
% [whois.apnic.net]
% Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

% Information related to 'AS7467 - AS7722'

as-block:       AS7467 - AS7722
descr:          APNIC ASN block
remarks:        These AS numbers are further assigned by APNIC
remarks:        to APNIC members and end-users in the APNIC region
admin-c:        HM20-AP
tech-c:         HM20-AP
mnt-by:         APNIC-HM
mnt-lower:      APNIC-HM
last-modified:  2008-09-04T06:40:26Z
source:         APNIC

role:           APNIC Hostmaster
address:        PO Box 3646
address:        South Brisbane
address:        QLD 4101
country:        AU
phone:          +61 7 3858 3100
fax-no:         +61 7 3858 3199
e-mail:         helpdesk@apnic.net
admin-c:        AMS11-AP
tech-c:         AH256-AP
nic-hdl:        HM20-AP
remarks:        Administrator for APNIC
notify:         hostmaster@apnic.net
mnt-by:         MAINT-APNIC-AP
last-modified:  2026-08-26T00:40:00Z
source:         APNIC

% Information related to 'AS7500 - AS7531'

as-block:       AS7500 - AS7531
descr:          JPNIC-2Byte-ASBLOCK-AP
descr:          for assignment to JPNIC members
country:        JP
admin-c:        JNIC1-AP
tech-c:         JNIC1-AP
remarks:        Authoritative information regarding AS Number
remarks:        assignments made from within this block can be
remarks:        queried at whois.nic.ad.jp.
remarks:        To only display English output,
remarks:        add '/e' at the end of command,
remarks:        e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'.
mnt-by:         APNIC-HM
mnt-lower:      MAINT-JPNIC
last-modified:  2017-06-12T03:54:29Z
source:         APNIC

role:           Japan Network Information Center
address:        Uchikanda OS Bldg 4F, 2-12-6 Uchi-Kanda
address:        Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0047, Japan
country:        JP
phone:          +81-3-5297-2311
fax-no:         +81-3-5297-2312
e-mail:         hostmaster@nic.ad.jp
admin-c:        JI13-AP
tech-c:         JE53-AP
nic-hdl:        JNIC1-AP
mnt-by:         MAINT-JPNIC
last-modified:  2022-01-05T03:04:02Z
source:         APNIC

% Information related to 'AS7500'

aut-num:        AS7500
as-name:        M-ROOT-DNS
descr:          WIDE Project
import:
export:
country:        JP
admin-c:        JM002JP
tech-c:         AK003JP
last-modified:  2006-11-14T20:29:29Z
remarks:        This information has been partially mirrored by APNIC from
remarks:        JPNIC. To obtain more specific information, please use the
remarks:        JPNIC WHOIS Gateway at
remarks:        http://www.nic.ad.jp/en/db/whois/en-gateway.html or
remarks:        whois.nic.ad.jp for WHOIS client. (The WHOIS client
remarks:        defaults to Japanese output, use the /e switch for English
remarks:        output)
source:         JPNIC

% This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.88.48 (WHOIS-US2)


What AS7500 announces

Prefixes originated by AS7500 in the RouteViews table (refreshed every four hours), each checked against the RPKI (every ten minutes) and the IRR (daily).

IPv4 prefixes
4
IPv6 prefixes
1
IPv4 addresses
1,024 (4 /24s)
RPKI valid
3 60%
RPKI invalid
0
RPKI not found
2
ROAs naming AS7500
7
With an IRR route object
5 100%

Announced prefixes

Each opens its own page: who announces it, the paths our collectors see, its ROAs and route objects.

IPv4 (4)
IPv6 (1)

RPKI valid   RPKI invalid   no ROA covers it

Who AS7500 is reached through

The AS just before AS7500 in the paths our looking glass collectors hold, for 5 of its prefixes. Usually a transit provider, sometimes a peer. The number is how many of those prefixes it was seen on.