% whois -h whois.theitdept.au AS152590 org-name: The IT Dept Pty Ltd aut-num: AS152590 admin-c: Nick Pratley — npratley.net country: AU — Sydney, NSW infra: Juniper, own ASN, v4 /23 + v6 upstream: Leaptel — transit + NBN layer 2 also-runs: RIPE Atlas anchor funding: none. runs on customers and stubbornness. remarks: built for one person's home internet. remarks: massively oversized. on purpose. remarks: small number of customers. occasionally room. status: TAKING A FEW
Internet infrastructure, for people who run their own.
This is a one-man network, run as craft for twenty-odd years. Telco-grade kit in a Sydney data centre, our own address space, and considerably more capacity than one house needs. It is not a startup. There are no investors, no growth targets, no account managers, and no tickets about WordPress. Nobody is trying to exit. There is nothing to exit to.
It's kept deliberately small. When there's room, a few people get in. You deal directly with the person who runs the routers.
INTERNET — NBN, DONE PROPERLY
LIMITED INTAKENo CGNAT, BYO router without an argument, and every plan includes a static v4 and a v6 /56 — not as an add-on, as the default. For people who know what those words mean.
TRANSIT & L2 — FOR OPERATORS
BY ARRANGEMENTTransit seats and layer-2 handoffs for small operators and serious hobbyist ASNs, in-rack or via cross-connect. Talk to me about what you're announcing.
HOW TO GET IN
No signup form. Email nick@theitdept.au — or SMS / WhatsApp 0448 379 418 — and tell me what you run. If it fits, you're in. If it doesn't, I'll probably still answer your networking question, because I can't help myself.
* prices are straw-man v0.1 — argue with me.
pay by card or bitcoin (on-chain / lightning) — invoices in AUD either way.