Autonomous system
AS4792 NATECOMMS-AS-KR NATE Communications Corporation
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Nate Communications
enterprise legacy
Autonomous System 4792 (NATECOMMS-AS-KR) is operated by Nate Communications Corporation, the Seoul company behind the long-running Nate web portal.
What it's used for
- Hosting and serving the Nate portal and its associated web, mail and media properties, plus the company's own corporate infrastructure.
Notable
- This is a content/portal operator's network rather than a consumer ISP: the addresses front web services (portal pages, mail, image and news hosts) instead of terminating subscriber lines.
Interesting
- The company was founded in 1999 as Lycos Korea and spent two decades as SK Communications, the SK Telecom subsidiary that ran Nate and the social network Cyworld. It was sold on and renamed Nate Communications in 2025, and the APNIC registration for this AS was updated to match.
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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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9286 | KINX | 891 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 36 prefixes · 29.18K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 36 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS4792- Registry name
- NATECOMMS-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1996-10-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 23 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS4792
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 48 naming AS4792
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: 443 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