AS7559 DONGA-NET-AS donga.com

DONGA-NET-AS-KR is registered to donga.com, the online arm of the Dong-A Ilbo,

one of South Korea's major national daily newspapers. Reverse DNS on the announced

space resolves under donga.com, including the publisher's own name servers.

What it's used for

• Hosting and serving the newspaper's digital operations: the donga.com news site and the publishing and corporate systems behind it.
• The AS is small, a few /24s carved out of legacy Korean space, which is the right size for one media organisation's own infrastructure.

Notable

• An enterprise/media network, not an ISP. The address space is the publisher's own, and what reverse DNS exists points at its servers rather than at any subscriber pool.
• The reverse DNS is what makes this one easy to be sure of. Many Korean networks carry none at all, so a clean donga.com naming scheme is unusually good evidence.

Interesting

• Dong-A Ilbo was founded in 1920 under Japanese colonial rule and was suspended and censored repeatedly during that period. It is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in Korea.
• The AS sits immediately alongside address space used by [AS7558](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS7558), the Korean Broadcasting System, in the same legacy 210.115.0.0 range. Korean media organisations were numbered close together.