Autonomous system
AS196659 NBK-KW NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT S.A.K.P
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
National Bank of Kuwait
business banking corporate
NBK- is held by National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K.P.
What it's used for
- The address space carries corporate infrastructure for the bank, identified by the netname
KW-NBK-20061109and registrantNATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT S.A.K.P. - The AS announces 512 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, with only 2 observed neighbours, indicating a small, self-contained internal network rather than a transit or access provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of internal corporate communications, branch backhaul, and web/API endpoints for the bank's operations.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced IPv4 prefixes match the AS holder,
NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT S.A.K.P. - The address inventory is finely subdivided into two /24 blocks and two IPv6 prefixes, consistent with an internal corporate estate segmented by site or function.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KW | Kuwait | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS196659- Registry name
- NBK-KW
- Registrant
- NBK-NS-KW
- Abuse contact
- kazima@nbk.com
- Registered
- 2009-03-25
- Last changed
- 2022-01-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 11 authorising AS196659
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS196659
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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