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.
Address space
Summary
| 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
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere