Autonomous system
AS8529 OMANTEL-AS ZOI - Zain Omantel International
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Zain Omantel International (ZOI)
transit isp legacy
OMANTEL-AS is the AS that carries Omantel's international wholesale business, now run through Zain Omantel International (ZOI) — the joint venture between Kuwait's Zain and Oman's incumbent operator Omantel that consolidates their international carrier operations.
What it's used for
- Global IP transit and wholesale carriage: ZOI sells connectivity to operators, content networks and data centres across the Middle East and out to the rest of the world over Oman's subsea-cable landings.
- The AS is the transit path for a large share of regional traffic, rather than a network of end users.
Notable
- The defining number here is not the address count — a modest ~14,000 IPv4 addresses — but the peering fan-out: on the order of 1,800 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio, tiny address space and enormous adjacency, is the fingerprint of a transit carrier: it moves other people's routes, it does not number other people's customers.
- The little rDNS that exists is Omantel router naming (
omantel.net.om) plus Akamai cache appliances hosted on-net. There are no subscriber pools; Omantel's Omani retail customers sit on separate ASNs.
Interesting
- Oman's geography is the business case: the country sits beside the Strait of Hormuz on the cable routes between Europe, Africa and Asia, and ZOI's pitch is that it lands more subsea systems than any other operator in the region.
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 19 exchanges in 11 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.84 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.33 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.30 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.224 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.132 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.227 |
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.67.250 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.76 |
Transit providers
45 upstream, 44 downstream and 180 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 13.82K addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AE | United Arab Emirates | 21 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8529- Registry name
- OMANTEL-AS
- Registrant
- lir-ae-zainomantel-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ip-abuse@zainomantel.com
- Registered
- 2002-04-13
- Last changed
- 2024-12-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Zain Omantel International
- Also known as
- ZOI
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS8529:AS-ZOI- Present at
- 21 exchanges
- Facilities
- 11 facilities
- Website
- https://www.zainomantel.com/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 37 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 20 authorising AS8529
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 92% registered · 36 of 39 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 153 naming AS8529
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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