Autonomous system
AS8781 QA-ISP
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Ooredoo Qatar
isp broadband mobile legacy
QA-ISP is Ooredoo Q.S.C. — Qatar's incumbent telecom operator, known as Qtel until the 2013 rebrand, and still the country's dominant carrier. This is the AS behind qatar.net.qa.
What it's used for
It is Qatar's main eyeball network. AS8781 announces roughly 667,000 IPv4 addresses across 151 prefixes plus 11 IPv6 prefixes — a very large footprint for a country of under three million people — and carries fixed broadband, fibre-to-the-home and mobile data for the great majority of Qatari subscribers. Peering databases rank it first in the country by estimated eyeballs, with a customer population around 1.8 million.
The sampled reverse DNS lands on be-10-rec-gw5.qatar.net.qa, a bundle-Ethernet gateway router in the operator's own domain: backbone naming, as expected at the edge of a carrier's address space.
Notable
- 126 observed BGP neighbours. That is a transit-carrier's peering profile as much as an ISP's, and it reflects Ooredoo's role as one of the Gulf's international gateways: it lands submarine cables and sells wholesale capacity onward, not just retail access.
- The AS has been in the routing table since RIS records begin, originating
212.77.194.0/24in 2000 under the Qtel name. - Ooredoo Group is a large multinational with operations across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, but this AS is the Qatari domestic network specifically; the group's other markets are numbered separately.
Interesting
The fixed and mobile sides of the business share this one AS, which is why it resists a clean split between residential and mobile — a single Qatari household's broadband line and phone can both be numbered out of the same estate.
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 8 exchanges in 7 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.11 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.188 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.120 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.56 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.181 |
| UAE-IX | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 185.1.8.86 |
| Qatar Internet Exchange Point | Doha, Qatar | 185.1.159.9 |
| Doha IX | Doha, Qatar | 194.42.47.69 |
Transit providers
35 upstream, 22 downstream and 99 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 121 prefixes · 661K addresses IPv6 310 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| QA | Qatar | 431 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8781- Registry name
- QA-ISP
- Registrant
- Ooredoo Q.S.C.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@qatar.net.qa
- Registered
- 2002-07-07
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Ooredoo Qatar
- Also known as
- Ooredoo Qatar
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-QTEL-SET- Present at
- 9 exchanges
- Facilities
- 9 facilities
- Website
- http://www.ooredoo.qa
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
- 100% valid · 162 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 165 authorising AS8781
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 162 of 162 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,907 naming AS8781
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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