Autonomous system
AS9639 ARTISTCOMPANY-AS-KR Artist Company Inc.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Artist Company (formerly WiderPlanet)
enterprise hosting legacy
AS9639 is registered to Artist Company Inc., but that name is recent and the network underneath it is older than the label. The AS was long known as WIDERPLANET-AS-KR, belonging to WiderPlanet, a KOSDAQ-listed Korean ad-tech firm running a big-data DMP and display/mobile advertising platform out of Gangnam. In 2023 WiderPlanet was renamed Artist United after actors Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung took large stakes in it, and in November 2024 it merged with their talent agency, Artist Company. The registry record followed the corporate paperwork.
What it's used for
Read the routing, not the name. RIS sees 3 IPv4 prefixes carrying 1,024 addresses — a /22 at 103.105.156.0 plus the two /23s that make it up, announced alongside it — one IPv6 prefix, 2402:bcc0::/32, and 1 observed neighbour. A single-homed stub AS with a contiguous /22 and a full /32 of IPv6 is not a talent agency's office network. It is a platform network: a company that owns provider-independent space, runs ad-serving or data infrastructure on it, and took IPv6 seriously enough to get a /32.
That fits the WiderPlanet inheritance precisely. An advertising DMP serves bid responses, tracking pixels and creatives from addresses that publishers, exchanges and partners have to trust and often whitelist, which is a strong reason to hold your own block and your own AS rather than rent one. The /32 IPv6 allocation and the aggregated /22 both point at infrastructure planned as a platform, not accumulated as an office.
Notable
- The registered name is an entertainment company; the network is an ad-tech platform's. This is a real corporate merger, not a mis-registration, but the handle is a trap for anyone classifying by name.
- One of very few ASes in the AS9600s to announce IPv6 at all.
- Single upstream: a stub AS with no BGP redundancy.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9286 | KINX | 223 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, 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 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9639- Registry name
- ARTISTCOMPANY-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1999-08-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9639
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS9639
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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