Ooredoo IP Ranges
Ooredoo's Qatari network is registered with RIPE as AS8781 under the AS name QA-ISP, an aut-num object created in July 2002 when the company still traded as Qatar Telecom. The record's own remark spells out its scope directly: ISP for the State of Qatar, nothing about the Group's other markets.
- Provider
- Ooredoo
- Primary ASN
- AS8781
- Category
- ISP
- Headquarters
- Doha, Qatar
- Announced IPv4 prefixes
- 151
- Registry
- RIPE
Known IP ranges
These prefixes are currently announced to the global routing table by AS8781 (QA-ISP Ooredoo Q.S.C.). Prefix sets change over time - use WHOIS Lookup for the authoritative record on any specific address.
178.152.0.0/15
37.210.0.0/15
78.100.0.0/15
176.202.0.0/15
89.211.0.0/16
37.208.128.0/17
86.62.192.0/18
213.130.96.0/19
82.148.96.0/19
212.77.192.0/19
2001:1a10::/29
2001:1a11::/32
2001:1a10::/32 (IPv6)
What does an Ooredoo IP mean in a privacy test?
An Ooredoo address as your visible IP means the connection is routed through Ooredoo's Qatar network rather than a VPN or hosting exit. The ASN on its own does not say whether the line is a home fibre connection, a mobile SIM, or a business circuit, though RIPE's more specific objects do label some ranges as FTTH, ADSL, mobile broadband or leased-line pools, and reverse DNS resolves on parts of the network while most subscriber addresses sampled return nothing. And AS8781 covers Qatar only: Ooredoo Group also runs networks in Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, the Maldives, Oman, Palestine and Tunisia, each announced separately.
What RIPE records about Ooredoo, and why the netnames still say QTEL
No allowlist or geofeed is published for AS8781, so RIPE's own registry is the source. The aut-num carries the AS name QA-ISP and is held by ORG-QT1-RIPE, registered to Ooredoo Q.S.C. at the company's HQ2 tower on Old Airport Road in Doha; the object dates to 7 July 2002 and was last updated in November 2017. RIPEstat's routing-status figures for the ASN, taken the same day as this page, count 151 IPv4 prefixes covering 667,136 unique addresses; four blocks tie for largest at a /15 apiece - 37.210.0.0/15, 78.100.0.0/15, 176.202.0.0/15 and 178.152.0.0/15, 131,072 addresses each - and the 151 prefixes sum to more than 667,136 only because smaller ones sit inside those /15s.
The five largest blocks announced - those four plus 89.211.0.0/16 - all carry a netname in the pattern QA-QTEL-YYYYMMDD: QTEL for Qatar Telecom, the company's name before its 2013 rebrand to Ooredoo, and the pattern is still on allocations made as recently as April 2015. None of the five carries a geofeed attribute or a geofeed link, so for these blocks a city-level claim against an Ooredoo address is a third party's estimate, not something the registry publishes. What the aut-num does publish is scope and routing policy: a remark stating plainly that AS8781 is the ISP for the State of Qatar, alongside the BGP communities its peers use to set local preference, prepend the path, or blackhole an address - detail for a network operator, not a subscriber lookup.
Sparse reverse DNS, and no clean split between fixed and mobile
Reverse DNS here is real but thin. RIPE holds delegated reverse zones over large parts of the network - 104 under 78.100.0.0/15, 33 under 89.211.0.0/16 and 5 under 176.202.0.0/15, all pointed at Ooredoo's own qatar.net.qa nameservers - while 37.210.0.0/15 and 178.152.0.0/15 carry no delegation at all. What resolves inside those zones is mostly router and business infrastructure, such as xe-0-1-0-ash-gw1-mx48.qatar.net.qa on 89.211.2.50, while randomly sampled subscriber addresses across the five largest blocks returned nothing. A hostname will occasionally tell you something on this network, then, but you cannot rely on there being one. PeeringDB's own listing for the network, filed as Ooredoo Qatar under the IRR set AS-QTEL-SET - the QTEL name again - describes a mostly-inbound traffic ratio and a Cable/DSL/ISP profile present at nine exchange points: the shape of a network delivering traffic to subscribers, not one with rented compute for a proxy to run from.
What a match to AS8781 confirms is narrower than it looks. Ooredoo is Qatar's incumbent operator, selling fibre home broadband and mobile service under the one company, and the ASN by itself does not separate a residential line from a mobile SIM or a business circuit. RIPE's more specific objects do carry hints - inetnums inside this space are named for FTTH and ADSL pools, mobile broadband and GPRS pools, BRAS pools and LEASED-LINE ranges, and some are assigned to named businesses and ministries - but those labels cover only part of the announced space, and a lookup that stops at the ASN never sees them. The aut-num's own remark narrows the claim further still: it names AS8781 as the network for the State of Qatar specifically. Ooredoo Group also operates in Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, the Maldives, Oman, Palestine and Tunisia, and each of those runs its own separately registered network - a match here says Qatar, not the wider brand.
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Frequently asked questions
What does AS8781 mean, and who does RIPE register it to?
AS8781 is Ooredoo's Qatari network, and RIPE registers the object under the AS name QA-ISP to Ooredoo Q.S.C., organisation ORG-QT1-RIPE, at the company's Doha headquarters. The aut-num was created on 7 July 2002, when the company was still named Qatar Telecom, and last updated in November 2017; PeeringDB lists the same network as Ooredoo Qatar, category Cable/DSL/ISP.
How large is Ooredoo's IPv4 network?
RIPEstat's routing-status data counts 151 IPv4 prefixes announced under AS8781, covering 667,136 unique addresses. Four blocks tie for largest at a /15 each - 37.210.0.0/15, 78.100.0.0/15, 176.202.0.0/15 and 178.152.0.0/15, 131,072 addresses apiece - followed by 89.211.0.0/16, with the rest spread across smaller allocations down to /24.
Does an IP address in this range guarantee it's really Ooredoo?
It confirms what the routing table and the RIPE registry say at the moment you check, not a permanent fact about the address. Prefixes get reassigned, sold, or briefly hijacked, so the reliable check is a live one against RIPE's own data rather than a static list - this page's numbers are a snapshot, not a guarantee that holds indefinitely.
How do I check whether a specific IP is inside Ooredoo's range?
Run the address through this site's WHOIS lookup or ASN lookup tool, which query the registry directly rather than a cached list. Checking a live IP against a list of 151 prefixes by hand is impractical and the set changes over time, so a direct lookup is the only way to get a current answer.
What doesn't an Ooredoo IP address prove?
It doesn't pin down the connection type on its own: the ASN alone doesn't separate a home fibre line, a mobile SIM or a business circuit, and reverse DNS is sparse enough that most subscriber addresses resolve to nothing, though RIPE's more specific objects do label some ranges as FTTH, ADSL, mobile broadband or leased-line pools. It also doesn't extend past Qatar: the aut-num's own remark limits AS8781 to the State of Qatar, and Ooredoo Group's networks in Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, the Maldives, Oman, Palestine and Tunisia are registered separately.