Autonomous system
AS4613 MOS-NP Mercantile Office Systems
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Mercantile Communications (Mercantile Office Systems)
isp legacy
MOS-NP is Mercantile Office Systems in Kathmandu, the ISP business known today as Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd.
What it's used for
- Internet access and business connectivity in Nepal: fibre and wireless broadband, VSAT, MPLS/VPN links for corporate customers, plus web and email hosting and data-centre services.
Notable
- Mercantile is credited with bringing the first internet service to Nepal in the mid-1990s, starting from a dial-up and email link out of Kathmandu. The APNIC record still carries a 1995-era contact remark, matching that period.
- The routed footprint is small, a few thousand addresses, which is typical for a Nepali ISP where most customers sit behind carrier-grade NAT.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nepal Internet Exchange - Putalisadak | Kathmandu, Nepal | 198.32.231.27 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS45157 | Mercantile International Transit Services | 1,766 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NP | Nepal | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4613- Registry name
- MOS-NP
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2011-11-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 97% valid · 29 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS4613
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 30 of 30 announcements
- Route objects
- 57 naming AS4613
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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