Autonomous system
AS44703 THURAYA
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Thuraya
satellite mobile telecom uae
The AS handle THURAYA is held by Thuraya Telecommunications Private Joint-Stock Company.
What it's used for
- The address space carries satellite mobile communications, with netnames explicitly labeled
THURAYA-GPRS,THURAYA-GPRS2, andTHURAYA-SERVICES. - The AS announces 6144 IPv4 addresses across 7 prefixes and maintains a single observed neighbour, a ratio indicative of a self-contained access network rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of mobile satellite data sessions for Thuraya's global subscriber base, supporting voice and data services across its L-band network coverage.
Notable
- All registrants in the RDAP data are listed as
Abuse-C Role, which aligns with the announcer identity for this corporate entity. - Thuraya is the mobile satellite services subsidiary of Yahsat, a global satellite operator based in the UAE, and is fully owned by Mubadala Investment Company.
- The inventory consists entirely of IPv4 space within the 85.115.0.0/16 range, with no IPv6 prefixes announced or present in the inventory.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS208428 | PJSC | 582 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 6.14K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AE | United Arab Emirates | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS44703- Registry name
- Thuraya
- Registrant
- MNT-THURAYA
- Abuse contact
- infosec@thuraya.com
- Registered
- 2008-02-26
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS44703
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS44703
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: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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