Autonomous system
AS8738 VISA-ISRAEL-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Israel Credit Cards (Cal)
enterprise finance legacy
Israel Credit Cards Ltd (VISA-ISRAEL-AS) — the Israeli card issuer and acquirer that trades as Cal, formerly Visa CAL. Five prefixes inside 192.114.36.0/22, 1,024 addresses, two BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
- The public edge of a card-processing business: cardholder portals, merchant and API endpoints, and corporate mail. The rDNS is entirely the company's own —
cal-online.co.ilfor the consumer and API front ends,icc.co.ilfor internal infrastructure. - Multi-homing is the point of the AS. A payment processor cannot afford to have its authorisation path depend on one carrier, so it holds its own addresses and announces them to more than one provider.
Notable
- The handle is a licensing artifact, not the company.
VISA-ISRAELnames the card scheme the issuer was originally licensed under; this is not Visa Inc. and none of this space belongs to the international network. The company rebranded to plain Cal years ago and the registry handle simply never followed. - 1,024 addresses is small even for a bank-sized enterprise. Card processors keep their production estate on private space; only the internet-facing sliver needs a public AS.
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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IL | Israel | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8738- Registry name
- VISA-ISRAEL-AS
- Registrant
- AS8738-MNT
- Abuse contact
- dnsreg@012.net.il
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-02-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS8738
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8738
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