AS9786 XIANDOUCLOUD1-AS-AP XIANDOUCLOUD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LTD

AS9786 (XIANDOUCLOUD1-AS-AP) is registered to Xiandoucloud Information Technology Ltd. The registration is worth reading carefully: the ASN sits in the APNIC (Asia-Pacific) range and the brand is Chinese, but the company's registry address is a serviced-office block in Manchester, England, and the contact domain is xiandoucloud.net. The AS number itself is a low, legacy one that has clearly changed hands from whoever originally held it.

What it's used for

Small-scale cloud or VPS-style hosting, as far as the routing shows. RIS sees just 2 IPv4 prefixes carrying 512 addresses (155.103.155.0/24 and 210.79.187.0/24), one IPv6 /48 (2001:df3:3c40::/48), and 2 BGP neighbours. The two /24s do not come from the same place: one is registered under the Xiandoucloud name in Singapore, while the other appears in the registries under an unrelated third-party company. That mix of a tiny inventory, address blocks drawn from different sources, a prefix registered to someone else, and a virtual-office registrant address is a shape worth treating with caution. It is consistent with a small hosting outfit that leases or acquires address space piecemeal, and it is not the profile of an operator running its own significant infrastructure.

Notable

• 512 IPv4 addresses is about as small as a routed hosting network gets; the announced IPv6 /48 is likewise a minimal allocation.
• The gap between the APNIC registration, the Singapore prefix name and the UK registrant address means the AS's real operating location cannot be pinned down from the registry data alone.