Autonomous system
AS9516 SAKURALINK-AS-AP SAKURA LINK LIMITED
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Sakura Link Limited
hosting transit legacy
AS9516 (SAKURALINK-AS-AP) is held by Sakura Link Limited, a Hong Kong network and hosting company. Despite the low, legacy-range AS number, APNIC records the current registration as recent — the number appears to have been recycled and re-issued rather than held continuously since the 1990s.
What it's used for
This is an IPv6-only AS in the routing table. RIS sees zero IPv4 prefixes and three IPv6 /48s, all adjacent and drawn from the same 2401:f460::/32 block: 2401:f460:2100::/48, 2401:f460:2200::/48 and 2401:f460:2300::/48. Against that tiny inventory it shows 8 observed neighbours — a ratio that tells you more than the address count does. A network with essentially no addresses of its own but a spread of BGP adjacencies is not serving end users out of this AS; it is doing interconnection. Sakura Link operates hosting infrastructure in Hong Kong and runs an exchange point there, and this AS reads as a piece of that interconnection and v6 hosting estate rather than as the company's main customer-facing network.
Notable
- Sakura Link's principal, IPv4-carrying registration is a separate, much higher-numbered AS; AS9516 is the v6 sibling and carries none of the company's IPv4 space.
- Zero IPv4 prefixes originated is genuinely unusual in the legacy AS range — most networks this old are IPv4-first with v6 bolted on later. Here the number is old and the deployment is new.
- Upstreams and peers are Hong Kong hosting and transit carriers, consistent with a colocation/hosting footprint rather than an eyeball base.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS9516- Registry name
- SAKURALINK-AS-AP
- Registrant
- SAKURA LINK LIMITED
- Abuse contact
- noc@sakura.as
- Registered
- 2025-03-10
- Last changed
- 2025-03-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- SAKURA
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- https://sakura.as
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS9516
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS9516
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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