Autonomous system
AS8264 MARLINK-SK
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Marlink
satellite business legacy
MARLINK-SK is held by Marlink AS, the Norwegian-headquartered satellite communications provider (Lysaker, near Oslo). Marlink is one of the largest maritime satcom operators, serving merchant shipping, offshore energy, fishing fleets and remote enterprise and humanitarian sites over VSAT, Inmarsat, Iridium and, increasingly, LEO services.
What it's used for
- Terminating customer traffic delivered over satellite: vessels at sea, offshore platforms, and land-based sites with no terrestrial connectivity.
- The AS announces two long-held RIPE allocations,
212.197.0.0/17and195.20.160.0/19, whose netnames (NO-MARLINK-19980702,NO-MARLINK-19971007) date the space to 1997 and 1998.
Notable
- Do not geolocate this space. An address on a Marlink terminal is wherever the ship, rig or camp currently is. The registry country attributes on the allocations do not agree with the holder's Norwegian address either, so any single country pin is misleading.
- Reverse DNS is essentially absent across the sampled space, consistent with addresses handed to customer terminals rather than named infrastructure.
Interesting
- The
ASin "Marlink AS" is the Norwegian aksjeselskap (limited company), not an autonomous system. Two differentASin one holder name.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Slovak Internet eXchange Bratislava | Bratislava, Slovakia | 192.108.148.60 |
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 2 prefixes · 40.96K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NO | Norway | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8264- Registry name
- MARLINK-SK
- Registrant
- Marlink-MNT
- Abuse contact
- lir-abuse@marlink.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS8264
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS8264
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