Autonomous system
AS7590 COMSATS Commission on Science and Technology for
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
COMSATS Internet Services (Pakistan)
isp hosting legacy
COMSATS — the network of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South, an intergovernmental science organisation headquartered in Islamabad, which runs COMSATS Internet Services as a working ISP in Pakistan.
What it's used for
- Internet access and hosting sold across Pakistan under
comsats.net.pk, plus connectivity for the organisation's own academic and institutional users. - The reverse DNS is a genuinely mixed bag, and that mix is the point: legacy dial-up subscriber pools named
210-56-9-NNN.Dialup.isb.comsats.net.pk, hosted virtual servers such asvps3.comsats.net.pk, and third-party organisations' servers — an NGO, a newspaper, a logistics firm, and COMSATS University.
Notable
- An IP here can be either a subscriber address or a hosted server, so a single use-type label does not fit the AS as a whole. It is a full-service ISP rather than a pure eyeball network or a pure hosting provider, and it should be treated with that ambiguity in mind.
- The space is COMSATS' own — around 56 contiguous-ish /24s from Pakistan's
203.124and210.56APNIC ranges — so geolocation to Pakistan is sound even where the use type is not.
Interesting
- The parent COMSATS is an intergovernmental body with member states across the developing world, an unusual owner for a commercial-looking ISP AS: the ISP arm was set up to fund and extend the organisation's science-and-technology mandate.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 20 prefixes · 11.26K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PK | Pakistan | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS7590- Registry name
- COMSATS
- Registrant
- COMSATS
- Abuse contact
- arsaeed@comsats.net.pk
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2023-07-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 92% valid · 44 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 45 authorising AS7590
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 48 of 48 announcements
- Route objects
- 189 naming AS7590
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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