Autonomous system
AS8659 AS8659 - United Nations International Computing Centre
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)
government research legacy
AS8659 belongs to the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), the UN system's shared ICT services provider. Established in 1971 by agreement between the UN, UNDP and WHO, it runs data centres and managed IT for UN agencies and other international organisations, headquartered in Geneva.
What it's used for
- Hosting and connectivity for UN-system client organisations. UNICC operates on a cost-recovery basis and delivers infrastructure, hosting, security and collaboration services to more than seventy agencies and partner bodies from sites in Geneva, New York, Valencia, Rome and Brindisi.
- About 5,100 IPv4 addresses, mostly a cluster of /24s in
193.5.88.0/21and146.247.8.0/21.
Notable
- Sampled reverse DNS resolves to
fw1.wipo.int— a firewall belonging to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The addresses in this AS are used by UNICC's clients, so a given prefix may front one UN agency rather than UNICC itself. - Only five observed BGP neighbours: a leaf network buying transit for a handful of hosting sites, not a carrier.
Interesting
- Classified as
governmentbecause that is the nearest honest bucket for an intergovernmental organisation, but note the shape: this is a shared services provider, and the space should be attributed to the UN system rather than to any single agency or country.
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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 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8659- Registry name
- AS8659
- Registrant
- AS8659-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse-c@unicc.org
- Registered
- 2001-10-08
- Last changed
- 2019-07-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 7% valid · 1 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8659
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 15 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS8659
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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