Autonomous system
AS6412 KW KEMS Block-A, Floor 7, Souq Al-Kabeer Kuwait City, State of Kuwait P O Box 3623, Safat 13037 KW
Residential RIPE
Summary
Gulfnet International / KEMS (Zajil Telecom)
isp legacy
The network of Gulfnet International Co. / KEMS, one of Kuwait's oldest internet service providers, today trading as KEMS Zajil Telecom.
What it's used for
- Consumer and business internet access in Kuwait: ADSL, GPON fibre, and enterprise data services.
- Subscriber address pools are visible in reverse DNS as
…adsl.kems.net, which is the clearest signal that this AS carries eyeball traffic rather than pure infrastructure. - Announces roughly 118k IPv4 addresses, mixed between legacy ARIN-era space (
168.187.0.0/16) and RIPE space (80.184.0.0/16).
Notable
- KEMS was established in 1992 and was the first ISP licensed by Kuwait's Ministry of Communications, which explains why a Gulf ISP holds a four-digit AS number at all.
- The AS record is administered by the RIPE NCC today but sits inside an ARIN-originated block, a hallmark of the early-registration transfers that moved pre-RIR resources to the regional registries.
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 3 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.1 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.144.197 |
| Kuwait Internet Exchange | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 194.54.136.7 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 162 prefixes · 120K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KW | Kuwait | 162 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6412- Registry name
- KW
- Registrant
- GNET-AS6412-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ops@kw.zajil.com
- Registered
- 2002-08-21
- Last changed
- 2025-09-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 25% valid · 62 valid, 186 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 79 authorising AS6412
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 248 of 248 announcements
- Route objects
- 312 naming AS6412
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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