Autonomous system
AS10497 WORLDBANK
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
World Bank (IBRD)
WORLDBANK is the network of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) — the lending arm of the World Bank Group, an intergovernmental institution founded in 1944, owned by 189 member states and headquartered at 1818 H Street NW in Washington, D.C.
What it's used for
The institution's own corporate and field-office infrastructure: staff systems, data and publication services, and connectivity for the country offices it runs across more than a hundred nations. RIS sees 13 announced IPv4 prefixes totalling roughly 134,000 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix (2620:1ff::/36), with 3 observed neighbours.
Notable
Classify this as government / intergovernmental, not commercial. Two things in the routing table support that beyond the name.
First, the address holdings are old. Alongside two modern /16s (138.220.0.0/16, 164.114.0.0/16) sit a cluster of legacy Class-C blocks — 192.86.97.0/24 through 192.86.106.0/24, plus 192.156.228.0/24 and 199.165.158.0/24. Space in 192.86/16 was handed out in the pre-CIDR era to established institutions; an organisation that has held it continuously has been on the internet since the late 1980s.
Second, 134,000 addresses with only 3 neighbours is a large enterprise shape, not a carrier one. The Bank buys transit and originates its own space; it sells nothing to anyone.
Interesting
Because the Bank operates resident missions worldwide, addresses in this AS do not all sit in Washington. Geolocating the whole range to D.C. will misplace country-office traffic.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 134K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10497- Registry name
- WORLDBANK
- Registrant
- IBRD
- Abuse contact
- abuse@worldbank.org
- Registered
- 1997-08-27
- Last changed
- 2024-02-13
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- IBRD
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 14 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 15 authorising AS10497
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 29 naming AS10497
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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