Autonomous system
AS9387 SHARPTEL-AS-AP SHARP TELECOM PRIVATE LIMITED
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Sharp Telecom (Private) Limited
isp legacy
AS9387 (SHARPTEL-AS-AP) is held by Sharp Telecom (Private) Limited, an internet service provider based in Karachi, Pakistan, operating under the sharptel.pk domain. It is a regional provider rather than a national carrier, selling broadband and business connectivity in the Karachi market. The name has no connection to the Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp.
What it's used for
The routing footprint is small and highly fragmented, which is what an established but modest ISP in an address-poor market looks like. RIS observes 23 IPv4 prefixes totalling only 5,888 addresses — almost every announcement is an individual /24 — alongside two IPv6 prefixes (2401:4100::/33 and a /48 more-specific out of it) and 5 observed BGP neighbours. The IPv4 space is scattered across three unrelated parent ranges (180.178.128.0 upward, 113.203.234–240, plus singleton /24s in 116.0.60.0 and 122.50.2.0), each acquired in small increments over time rather than as one allocation. Five neighbours is consistent with a handful of upstream transit providers and local peering, not with a wholesale role.
Notable
- The IPv6 holding is far larger than the IPv4 one in relative terms: a
/33is an enormous amount of v6 space next to under 6,000 v4 addresses, a common shape in markets where IPv4 scarcity bites hardest. - The single sampled PTR (
relay.dubilab.com) reflects a customer or hosted service inside the space. It tells you what the block carries, not who owns it. - Fragmented /24-only announcements make a network more exposed to prefix-hijack and filtering issues than a network holding aggregatable space.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 5.38K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PK | Pakistan | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9387- Registry name
- SHARPTEL-AS-AP
- Registrant
- SHARP TELECOM (PRIVATE) LIMITED
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@sharptel.pk
- Registered
- 2009-09-25
- Last changed
- 2020-10-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 23 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 40 authorising AS9387
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 128 naming AS9387
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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