Autonomous system
AS9958 KAKAOGAMES-AS-KR kakaogames
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Kakao Games
enterprise hosting legacy
AS9958 (KAKAOGAMES-AS-KR) is registered to Kakao Games Corp., the South Korean game publisher and Kakao subsidiary based in Pangyo (Seongnam). It is a small, single-homed corporate network rather than a service provider.
What it's used for
RIS sees 4 announced IPv4 prefixes, 1,024 addresses in total, no IPv6, and 1 observed BGP neighbour. Four /24s behind a single upstream is a content-owner footprint: enough routable space to publish game services, front ends and back-office systems under the company's own ASN, with none of the peering breadth that would indicate transit, hosting-for-others, or an eyeball network. The announcements split into two pairs — 211.231.109.0/24 and 211.231.110.0/24 in Korean address space, and 138.252.134.0/24 and 138.252.135.0/24 in an older legacy range — which is the normal pattern for a company that picked up a couple of small assignments at different times.
The single neighbour is the strongest signal here. A network this size that mattered as infrastructure would peer at KINX or one of the Korean exchanges; this one simply buys transit and stops.
Notable
- Kakao Games publishes and operates titles on PC and mobile and is listed on KOSDAQ; it is a content company, so addresses in this ASN should be read as game/service infrastructure and corporate systems.
- The ASN number is from a very early block, far older than the Kakao Games brand, so the ASN's vintage says nothing about the company's age. Registry handles get re-pointed when address resources change hands.
- No IPv6 is announced.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS23588 | KAKAO Enterprise | 130 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-24, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9958- Registry name
- KAKAOGAMES-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 2000-04-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9958
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS9958
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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