Autonomous system
AS61137 ANKABUTSERVICES
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Ankabut
education research network
ANKABUTSERVICES is operated by Khalifa University.
What it's used for
- The address space carries the Ankabut national research and education network in the United Arab Emirates, as indicated by netnames
ANKABUT-AEandAE-ANKABUT. - The AS announces 4096 IPv4 addresses across 9 prefixes with only 2 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a dedicated research and education backbone rather than a transit or access provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of academic and research institution connectivity, supporting the scientific and engineering research activities of Khalifa University and the broader UAE research community.
Notable
- Registrants for the prefixes include
Khalifa UniversityandAbuse-C Role, aligning with the announcer's identity as a university-operated research network. - The address inventory is composed of 9 distinct IPv4 prefixes, including blocks in the 5.53.0.0/16, 91.229.0.0/16, 109.205.0.0/16, and 185.76.0.0/16 ranges, with no IPv6 prefixes announced.
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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.
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 9 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AE | United Arab Emirates | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS61137- Registry name
- AnkabutServices
- Registrant
- MNT-ANKABUT-UAE
- Abuse contact
- mathew.joseph@ku.ac.ae
- Registered
- 2013-02-04
- Last changed
- 2020-08-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS61137
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 71% registered · 5 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS61137
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