Autonomous system
AS41176 SAHARANET-AS Sahara Net Main NOC AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Sahara Net
isp residential cable dsl
SAHARANET-AS is operated by Sahara Al Jazeera Network Information Technology Company.
What it's used for
- The address space carries consumer and corporate internet access, evidenced by netnames such as
SAHARA-NET-Corp-Customersand the operator's classification as a Cable/DSL/ISP. - The AS announces 39,168 IPv4 addresses across 43 prefixes and 19 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining only 5 observed neighbours. This high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access network providing last-mile connectivity rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber eyeballs and corporate customer connections, consistent with the operator's business model of providing broadband services in the Middle East.
Notable
- Registrants consistently identify the holder as Sahara Al Jazeera Network Information Technology Company or Sahara Net - RIPE Registration Team, aligning with the AS announcer.
- The address inventory is subdivided into multiple blocks with distinct netnames like
SA-SAHARA-20090615,SA-SAHARA-990113, andSA-SAHARA-20080415, reflecting historical acquisitions or allocations over time.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SAIX Saudi Arabia Riyadh | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 45.94.12.45 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 43 prefixes · 39.17K addresses IPv6 19 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| SA | Saudi Arabia | 62 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS41176- Registry name
- SaharaNet-AS
- Registrant
- Sahara Al Jazeera Network Information Technology Company
- Abuse contact
- abuse@sahara.com.sa
- Registered
- 2006-06-26
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 73 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 80 authorising AS41176
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 73 of 73 announcements
- Route objects
- 165 naming AS41176
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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