Autonomous system
AS10051 MICNET-AS-KR Korea Post Information Center
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Korea Post Information Center
MICNET-AS-KR belongs to the Korea Post Information Center, the IT arm of Korea Post, the national postal operator. It runs the computing that sits behind post-office counters nationwide, and AS10051 is the small routed footprint attached to it.
What it's used for
Internet-facing services for Korea Post's back-office systems. The AS announces 3 IPv4 prefixes totalling 768 addresses and no IPv6, drawn from a contiguous 203.254.117.0/24–203.254.119.0/24 block. That is a single-site allocation, not a service-provider one. The Information Center's remit is unusually broad for a postal body: as well as mail tracking it develops and operates the systems for Korea Post's financial products, meaning postal savings, postal insurance and remittances, including the settlement links to the Bank of Korea. A network carrying banking workloads is one that stays deliberately small and tightly bounded, which is exactly the shape here.
Notable
This is a government network, not a carrier or a hosting platform. Three /24s against one observed BGP neighbour is the signature of an end-site that buys transit and announces nothing on anyone else's behalf. A wholesale carrier of any size would show hundreds of adjacencies. Korea Post itself sits under the Ministry of Science and ICT, which places this AS squarely inside the central government rather than in the commercial sector its savings-bank business otherwise resembles.
Interesting
The MIC in the handle is a fossil: it dates from when Korea Post reported to the old Ministry of Information and Communication, a ministry that no longer exists. The operator was itself renamed Korea Post Digital Service in 2025 — the handle, as usual, outlived both.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9950 | DACOM-PUBNETPLUS | 187 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS10051- Registry name
- MICNET-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 2000-06-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10051
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 75% registered · 3 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS10051
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere