AS8430 ALMA-MEDIA-ALMATY-AS Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan

ALMA-MEDIA-ALMATY-AS is a small network in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It announces a

single /24 (195.49.208.0/24, netname ALMA-MEDIA-NET) behind one upstream, and

the current registrant on the object is an individual, not a company.

What it's used for

• Hard to say honestly, and the card does not pretend otherwise. The AS carries 256 addresses, has no reverse DNS at all on them, and shows a single upstream.
• The registry remarks list peering at KAZ-IX and with a few local Kazakh networks, which is the profile of a small local operator, but there is no observable service behind the addresses to confirm what they carry today.

Notable

• Do not confuse this with Alma TV. The similar-looking Alma Telecommunications Kazakhstan (the "Alma+" cable and internet operator in Almaty) is a different, much larger company on a different autonomous system. It is also unrelated to the Finnish media group of the same name.
• With one /24, no rDNS and an individual as registrant, there is not enough evidence to place this in any kind bucket. It is left unclassified rather than guessed at, and its addresses should not be attributed to any particular service.

Interesting

• The registry object still carries a hand-written remarks block listing upstreams and peering partners — a style of documentation that was normal in the 1990s RIPE database and is now rare.