Autonomous system
AS50999 KAUST-AS1
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
education research university
KAUST-AS1 is the autonomous system for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
What it's used for
- The address space carries university infrastructure, identified by netnames
SA-KAUST-20091118andKAUST-NETregistered to the university. - The AS announces 32,768 IPv4 addresses across 8 prefixes and 19 IPv6 prefixes, peering with 7 neighbours, a ratio consistent with an internal campus network rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of research, academic, and administrative endpoints for one of the world's wealthiest research universities, located near Jeddah.
Notable
- All registrants for the announced prefixes are King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, matching the AS holder.
- The IPv4 inventory is finely subdivided into eight prefixes ranging from /18 to /24, reflecting site-by-site segmentation of the university's internal estate.
- The AS was first seen in routing tables in 2010, aligning with the university's operational launch.
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
7 upstream, 0 downstream and 11 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 32.77K addresses IPv6 19 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| SA | Saudi Arabia | 27 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS50999- Registry name
- KAUST-AS1
- Registrant
- MNT-KAUST-RIPE-ADMIN
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kaust.edu.sa
- Registered
- 2010-05-12
- Last changed
- 2025-05-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS50999
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 147 naming AS50999
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 2026-10-21. 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