AS9958 KAKAOGAMES-AS-KR kakaogames

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.