Autonomous system
AS16060 KUWAIT-MOF-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Kuwait Ministry of Finance
government finance infrastructure
The registrant is the ministry's name with the joining word missing.
What it's used for
- A government ministry's network. One IPv4
/23announced from Kuwait, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through a single observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The registrant field names the ministry but drops the word between the department and its subject, so the entry reads as two nouns pushed together.
- The netname is the country and three initials for the ministry, in mixed case where the registry's convention is capitals.
- The AS handle is that same string in full capitals with three letters for an autonomous system attached, so the two fields disagree about the case of the same name.
- The only other contact is an abuse role.
- One route, one upstream, five hundred and twelve addresses, unchanged since the routing archive's early records.
Interesting
- Ministries were among the first organisations in many countries to get their own address blocks, usually before the national operator had anything to sell them. The block is small because the point was independence from the operator, not capacity.
- A single upstream on a finance ministry is the part worth noticing. Everything about the network says it is meant to reach out rather than be reached, and nothing about it is built to survive its provider having a bad day.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9155 | Quality Net General Trading & Contracting Company | 122 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KW | Kuwait | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16060- Registry name
- Kuwait-MOF-AS
- Registrant
- KW-MOF-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@fasttelco.net
- Registered
- 2009-01-12
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16060
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS16060
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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