Autonomous system
AS35019 BIX-AS
Unclassified RIPE Non-Profit
Summary
Bahrain Internet Exchange
exchange peering infrastructure government
The AS handle BIX-AS is held by Bahrain Internet Exchange.
What it's used for
- The address space carries peering and exchange infrastructure, evidenced by netnames
BH-EXCHANGE-20050110andBH-EXCHANGE-20160621registered to Bahrain Internet Exchange; BIX NOC. - With 3072 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and only 3 observed neighbours, the low neighbour count relative to the address inventory indicates a peering point or exchange facility rather than a transit provider or access network.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced prefixes match the announcer, listing Bahrain Internet Exchange; BIX NOC.
- Established by government decree in 2003, the organization operates as a non-profit body to connect local ISPs and reduce international bandwidth costs.
- The inventory consists of two distinct IPv4 blocks with no IPv6 prefixes announced.
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 2026-10-23, 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 · 3.07K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BH | Bahrain | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS35019- Registry name
- BIX-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-BIX
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bix.bh
- Registered
- 2005-05-18
- Last changed
- 2025-09-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- BIX Bahrain
- Also known as
- BIX
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS-35019- Website
- http://www.bix.bh
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 · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 14 authorising AS35019
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 31 naming AS35019
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 1,779 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