Autonomous system
AS9744 XLC-AS-AP
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
XLC Global
legacy hosting transit
AS9744 (XLC-AS-AP) is registered to XLC GLOBAL Limited, a Hong Kong company that sells server hosting and multi-carrier connectivity into Greater China and the wider Asia-Pacific. In PeeringDB it lists itself as a Network Service Provider with global scope, mostly-outbound traffic and a 100G port at HKIX.
What it's used for
The self-description and the actual routing do not line up, and the routing is the honest half. RIS sees just 3 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,280 addresses — 103.127.24.0/22, a more-specific 103.127.25.0/24 inside it, and a lone legacy 203.33.189.0/24 — with no IPv6 origin and 10 observed BGP neighbours. That is a small footprint for a self-declared global NSP. The ten neighbours are the one thing that fits the story: a network with a thousand-odd addresses does not normally touch ten peers, so this AS really is used for interconnection, likely as the peering identity fronting a hosting and China-transit business whose bulk address space is announced from other ASNs. The single /24 held apart from the /22 is a legacy fragment rather than part of any coherent aggregate.
Notable
- Treat marketing scale claims for this operator with caution. Whatever the wider XLC business announces elsewhere, AS9744 itself originates a very small inventory.
- The mix of a modern APNIC
103.xblock with an isolated legacy203.x/24 suggests the number and some of the space have changed hands over time; do not build a history claim on the low ASN. - Peering at HKIX with mostly-outbound traffic is consistent with a hosting/content-serving posture rather than an eyeball or enterprise access network.
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, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS3257 | GTT Communications Inc. | 6 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, 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 0 prefixes
This network announces no prefixes we can see.
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9744- Registry name
- XLC-AS-AP
- Registrant
- XLC GLOBAL Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@xlc.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-05-19
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 32 authorising AS9744
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 825 naming AS9744
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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