Autonomous system
AS9709 KISVAN-AS-KR KIS Information Communication,Inc
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
KIS Information & Communication (KIS정보통신)
enterprise legacy
AS9709 (KISVAN-AS-KR) is held by KIS Information & Communication, Inc., a South Korean payments company. KIS is one of the country's card VAN operators: the intermediary layer that carries authorisation and settlement traffic between merchant terminals and the card issuers. The handle matches its domain, kisvan.co.kr.
What it's used for
This is a single-purpose corporate network. RIS sees exactly 1 IPv4 prefix, 210.116.197.0/24, 256 addresses in total, no IPv6, and 3 observed neighbours. The ratio is the interesting part: three upstreams for one /24 is a deliberately over-provisioned edge, which is what a payment intermediary buys. The address count is irrelevant to a VAN, because the traffic that matters is transaction authorisation flowing over private links to card companies and out to merchant terminals, but availability is everything, since an outage means merchants cannot take card payments. So the network is tiny and multihomed rather than large and single-homed, the opposite of an access network's profile.
Notable
- KIS operates in a crowded segment. South Korea has more than two dozen licensed VAN companies, with KIS alongside names such as KICC, KCP, NICE and Smartro.
- Beyond classic terminal VAN service, the company offers payment-gateway services for online merchants, a smartphone-based payment app, and operates local-currency voucher schemes for Korean municipalities.
- The company name is easy to confuse with KICC (한국정보통신), a different Korean VAN operator with a similar English rendering. They are separate businesses.
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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 2026-10-26, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9709- Registry name
- KISVAN-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1999-10-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9709
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS9709
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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