AS9704 DONGWON-AS Korea Investment Trust Management Securities Co.,LTD

AS9704 (DONGWON-AS-KR) carries a registry description of Korea Investment Trust Management Securities Co., Ltd., but the routing evidence points at the Dongwon corporate group instead. The two are historically connected, and the registry record looks like a leftover from that history rather than a description of who runs the network today.

What it's used for

This is a corporate network. RIS sees 6 IPv4 prefixes, 1,536 addresses in total, no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours: a small dual-homed enterprise edge, not a provider of any kind. The six announcements are individual /24s from three different Korean blocks (a contiguous run at 210.96.162-164, plus 210.107.75, 211.180.31 and 1.255.127), the accumulation pattern of an established company that has picked up address space piecemeal. What resolves in the sample is the useful part: 210.96.162.5 is mail.dongwon.com, i.e. corporate mail under the Dongwon Group's own domain. Where the registry name and the live inventory disagree, the inventory is the honest one, and here it says the space is serving Dongwon's own business systems.

Notable

• The securities business named in the registry left the Dongwon Group. Dongwon Securities was separated from the group in December 2004 and merged with Korea Investment Trust in 2005 to form what is now Korea Investment & Securities under Korea Investment Holdings. The AS handle and the registry text both predate that split.
• Treat the registry description on this ASN with caution: any dataset that resolves AS9704 to a securities firm is repeating a stale record.