Summary

  • Two distinct entities share the string "DFINFRA"/"DINFRA": DINFRA GmbH, Siegen (Amtsgericht Siegen HRB 12766), a datacenter joint venture, and the RIPE role object DFINFRA (nic-hdl DA9499-RIPE) that serves as admin-c and tech-c of AS210860 within EDEKA's number-resource administration.
  • The Siegen company entered provisional insolvency on 27 November 2025 (Amtsgericht Siegen, case 25 IN 245/25) and has been in liquidation with effect from 23 July 2026, per the register rendering.
  • Prior BTW coverage incorrectly attributed the Siegen company's website and LinkedIn page to the EDEKA-related registry name; the ownership account of the Siegen venture names three local firms and no EDEKA entity.
  • The EDEKA-linked registry picture is unchanged by this correction: AS210860 has announced no prefixes since 26 March 2026, and no retained source documents commercial substance behind the registry identity.

The correction. BTW's earlier investigations of the name DFINFRA https://btw.media/de/governance/rir-watchdog/ripe-ncc/story/dfinfra-as210860-zero-announced-prefixes and its lifecycle ledger https://btw.media/en/governance/rir-watchdog/ripe-ncc/story/dfinfra-as210860-lifecycle-ledger established that "DFINFRA" is not a registered company but a RIPE role object (nic-hdl DA9499-RIPE, New-York-Ring 6, 22297 Hamburg, maintainer EDDI-MNT, created 10 June 2021) serving as admin-c and tech-c of AS210860. A further coverage pass on routing evidence https://btw.media/de/governance/rir-watchdog/ripe-ncc/story/dfinfra-as210860-routing-evidence-september-2026 repeated that framing. In describing how the name presents itself outside the registry, that coverage cited dinfra.de https://dinfra.de/ and a LinkedIn company page https://linkedin.com/company/dinfra-gmbh, and asserted that the site "delivers no described external services." That linkage is unsupported, and the assertion misdescribes the page it cited.

The Siegen company is a different legal person. The commercial-register rendering for DINFRA GmbH, Siegen https://www.northdata.de/DINFRA%20GmbH,%20Siegen/HRB%2012766 lists its registered office at Eiserfelder Str. 316, D-57080 Siegen, its corporate purpose as the operation of datacenters in Germany and German-speaking countries abroad, a preliminary insolvency administrator appointed by order of Amtsgericht Siegen (25 IN 245/25) dated 27 November 2025, and a liquidation entry with effect from 23 July 2026, with the entity now marked "i. L." (in liquidation). Trade reporting https://www.datacenter-insider.de/ein-rechenzentrum-fuer-das-siegerland-a-eaf4255055175d568a47df581799cd5d/ documents the venture's ownership and control: a joint venture of three Siegen-region firms — the system house Effexx ITS, UPONU GmbH and Deutsche Rechenzentren GmbH (DeRZ) — with a facility of 120 racks, twelve reserved for the venture's own SaaS infrastructure, 100 Gbit/s connectivity to DE-CIX and an intended EN 50600 / Tier III certification. The operator-side account agrees: the effexx group https://www.effexx.com/referenzen/verbraucherzentrale-nrw describes DINFRA GmbH as newly founded by UPONU, Deutsche Rechenzentren and effexx to offer mid-market cloud services. No EDEKA entity appears anywhere in that ownership account.

What the Siegen site actually claims. The dinfra.de homepage https://dinfra.de/ markets a regional datacenter for the Südwestfalen mid-market with co-location and managed services, and a service page https://dinfra.de/datacenter self-declares geo-redundant, autonomous operation and a PUE target below 1.3 at full load. These are operator self-declarations, not independently verified measurements, and the returned pages contain no customer names, prices, contract values or capacity-expansion announcements. The corrected reading is therefore double-edged: the site does describe external services, and the legal person behind it is now in liquidation.

The EDEKA-linked registry picture, restated on identifiers. AS210860 carries the as-name "edeka_digital" and the organisation ORG-EDG14-RIPE, which resolves to EDEKA Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH, Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 90516, a holding company https://www.northdata.de/EDEKA%20Verwaltungs-%20und%20Beteiligungs%20GmbH,%20Hamburg/HRB%2090516. EDEKA DIGITAL GmbH (HRB 113314, formerly Lunar GmbH) was absorbed into that holding by merger per a register notice of 5 August 2025 https://www.northdata.de/EDEKA%20DIGITAL%20GmbH,%20Hamburg/HRB%20113314. Hurricane Electric reports no visibility of AS210860 in the global routing table since 26 March 2026, with zero announced prefixes and one observed peer https://ipv4.bgp.he.net/AS210860, while a PeeringDB-derived profile self-declares ten IPv4 and one IPv6 prefixes — a self-declaration contradicted by every independent observation. No retained source connects the registry identity to a service catalogue, customer, price, contract or revenue figure.

Wider EDEKA context, retained but not conflated. The group's IT and infrastructure footprint is separately documented: EDEKA IT Stiftung & Co. OHG in the Mannheim register https://www.northdata.de/EDEKA%20IT%20Stiftung%20&%20Co%C2%B7%20OHG,%20Hamburg/Amtsgericht%20Mannheim%20HRA%20711779; a Legal Entity Identifier record https://register-lei.de/d/529900RSYWPDYQOB8137/; the group's own EDEKA IT page https://verbund.edeka/edeka-it.html; trade coverage of the founding of a joint IT company https://www.fim-online.de/marktueberblick/news/edeka-gruendet-gemeinsame-it-gesellschaft-neuer-meilenstein-in-der-zusammenarbeit; a reported datacenter move for EDEKA IT https://www.it-zoom.de/enterprise/e/edeka-it-zieht-in-neues-data-center-um-17088/; a software-defined-network reference https://www.sva.de/de/references-use-cases/edeka-setzt-auf-software-defined-network-von-cisco; the register extract for EDEKA Rechenzentrum Süd GmbH https://www.online-handelsregister.de/handelsregisterauszug/by/Wuerzburg/HRB/12515/EDEKA-Rechenzentrum-Sued-GmbH; the group impressum https://www.edeka.de/impressum/; the EDEKA IT impressum https://it.edeka/impressum/; an IPv4 transfer record https://dcxv.com/ipv4/transfer/694b3b9e0f62eb0d918212e0; and BTW's own EDEKA Digital profile page https://btw.media/en/edeka-digital. None of these sources supplies ownership of the Siegen venture, and none supplies commercial substance behind the DFINFRA role object. Both sides of the collision therefore remain distinct: a distressed Siegen operator with a live marketing site, and a silent registry contact with no evidenced business.

Next observable conditions. Three would move the record: any register notice terminating or restructuring the Siegen liquidation; any persistent, independently corroborated re-announcement of prefixes by AS210860; or a first-party statement assigning the DFINFRA role object to an identifiable operating function. Until then, the two names should be treated as separate identifiers.