ASNs by country using IP geolocation (not only by RIR registration)?

General
1

Hey everyone

I’ve been testing some IPs and noticed that a few ASNs clearly located in specific countries don’t appear when I check the country ASN lists
For example, both of these IPs are located in Bahrain according to IPinfo:

{
  "ip": "38.54.2.12",
  "city": "Manama",
  "country": "BH",
  "asn": {
    "asn": "AS138915",
    "name": "Kaopu Cloud HK Limited",
    "domain": "kaopucloud.com",
    "route": "38.54.2.0/23",
    "type": "hosting"
  }
}

{
  "ip": "15.185.237.11",
  "city": "Dār Kulayb",
  "country": "BH",
  "asn": {
    "asn": "AS16509",
    "name": "Amazon.com, Inc.",
    "domain": "amazon.com",
    "route": "15.185.0.0/16",
    "type": "hosting"
  }
}

But when I check the ASN list for Bahrain using the RIPE API:
https://stat.ripe.net/data/country-resource-list/data.json?resource=BH

and also through IPinfo:
https://ipinfo.io/api/data/asns?country=bh
or
https://ipinfo.io/countries/bh#section-asns

These ASNs don’t show up… just wanted to confirm if these endpoints only return ASNs registered under that country’s RIR or if there is a way to list ASNs detected by IP geolocation instead of registration origin.

2

Hi JDarzan,

The ASN country information is the organization’s registration country. An ASN can be registered in one country, but have IP addresses all over the world.

 $ ./asnsummary.sh AS138915


Summary
- Total   186880
- Unique  186880
- Anycast 0
- Bogon   0
- Mobile  0
- VPN     7260
- Proxy   5
- Hosting 184320
- Tor     2
- Relay   0

Top ASNs
- AS138915 Kaopu Cloud HK Limited 186880 (100.0%)

Top Usage Types
- Hosting  168960 (90.4%)
- Business 16128 (8.6%)
- ISP      1792 (1.0%)

Top Routes
- 211.155.96.0/22 (AS138915)  1024 (0.5%)
- 154.95.104.0/22 (AS138915)  1024 (0.5%)
- 154.95.100.0/22 (AS138915)  1024 (0.5%)
- 154.95.72.0/22 (AS138915)   1024 (0.5%)
- 211.155.100.0/22 (AS138915) 1024 (0.5%)

Top Countries
- Hong Kong     26625 (14.2%)
- United States 15360 (8.2%)
- Singapore     12048 (6.4%)
- Taiwan        7680 (4.1%)
- France        6504 (3.5%)

Top Cities
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK                   23428 (12.5%)
- Singapore, Singapore, SG                   12048 (6.4%)
- Mountain View, California, US              9384 (5.0%)
- Taipei, Taiwan, TW                         7168 (3.8%)
- Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR  6504 (3.5%)

Top Regions
- Hong Kong, HK                   23428 (12.5%)
- Singapore, SG                   12048 (6.4%)
- California, US                  9384 (5.0%)
- Taiwan, TW                      7168 (3.8%)
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR  6504 (3.5%)

Top Privacy Services
- giampingsocks5 91 (0.0%)
- metrovpn       54 (0.0%)
- ufovpn         31 (0.0%)
- ZoogVPN        18 (0.0%)
- blinevpn       18 (0.0%)

Top Domains
- asianet.co.th   256 (0.1%)
- speakeasy.net   249 (0.1%)
- netsourceva.com 2 (0.0%)
- challalaw.com   1 (0.0%)

One way to get the registered country of the ASN is through our ASN API service:

$ curl https://ipinfo.io/AS138915?token=$TOKEN | jq .country

"HK"

Please, let me know what you think. Thank you. I really appreciate it.

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