Autonomous system
AS15808 ACCESSKENYA-KE ACCESSKENYA GROUP LTD is an ISP serving
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
AccessKenya Group
isp telecom business hosting
Half the reverse names sit on a misspelled version of the company's own domain, and the AS name ends in a video game cheat code.
What it's used for
- A provider's network. Sixty-seven IPv4 prefixes and two IPv6
/32s announced from Kenya, eighty-six thousand and sixteen addresses, across thirty-six observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Eight answering names use the company's domain. Four more use the same name with one letter dropped, on a different top-level domain, and those four resolve just as well as the correct ones.
- Both forms write the four octets in forward order with the dots kept, so each octet is its own label.
- One further name belongs to a customer's mail server on an unrelated domain.
- The AS name string ends in a five-character token best known as a cheat code from a nineteen-nineties shooting game, followed by the two letters for an autonomous system.
- The AS handle runs on into a prose sentence describing the company, and the sentence is cut off mid-clause.
- Every netname is the same organisation handle generated by the registry, so no block has a name of its own. One block's lookup failed.
- Of eighteen addresses queried, twelve returned a name.
Interesting
- A typo in a reverse zone is normally invisible, because nobody reads reverse names and nothing checks them against the forward ones. Here it was registered as a real domain and wired up, so the mistake has been serving answers for years.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.13 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 21 downstream and 35 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS37662 | West Indian Ocean Cable Company | 1,841 |
| AS58453 | China Mobile International Limited | 1,046 |
| AS8966 | EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC | 910 |
| AS37100 | SEACOM Limited | 685 |
| AS328977 | Wavex Internet Service Provider LTD | 71 |
| AS3741 | Dimension Data | 70 |
| AS6939 | Hurricane Electric LLC | 31 |
| AS5511 | Orange S.A. | 18 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 67 prefixes · 86.02K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KE | Kenya | 69 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15808- Registry name
- ACCESSKENYA-KE
- Registrant
- COMMSOL-MNT
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 73 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS15808
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 73 of 73 announcements
- Route objects
- 211 naming AS15808
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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