Summary

  • Shijiazhuang XuDing Technology Company Ltd (ORG-SXTC1-RIPE) is a China-registered, RIPE-NCC-member Local Internet Registry holding AS42962 and allocations 185.192.56.0/22 and 2a0a:2840::/29, both dated 2017-02-28.
  • The network operates under the CoreLink/CLE-COMM brand with a corelink.io web presence, while RIPE records list a Beijing address, a Hong Kong phone number and the member appears in RIPE NCC's list of LIRs offering services in Hong Kong.
  • Public sources conflict on routing scale: PeeringDB self-reports about 1,000 IPv4 prefixes and 200-300 Gbps of traffic, while CIDR Report shows 1024 originated address space and RIPEstat records no RIS-visible originated prefixes.
  • The holder's own RIPE IPv4 block is announced in BGP mainly by other ASNs, including AS136796 (CoreLink Japan) and AS31898 (Oracle Corporation).

A company name that references Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, is an unusual label for a RIPE NCC Local Internet Registry. Yet that is what the registry data shows. RIPEstat identifies AS42962 as CLE-COMM, held by Shijiazhuang XuDing Technology Company Ltd, registered with RIPE NCC with status ALLOCATED on 2017-02-28 and country CN, with organisation object ORG-SXTC1-RIPE and the aut-num ASSIGNED 1; RIPEstat also records the ASN as seen in RIS as transiting.

The holder's RIPE allocations 185.192.56.0/22 and 2a0a:2840::/29 both date to 2017-02-28, yet the IPv4 space is announced mainly by AS136796 (CoreLink Japan) and AS31898 (Oracle Corporation) rather than by AS42962 itself 2. In other words, the registration and the routing point in different directions.

The operational identity is equally layered. PeeringDB entry 15964 describes AS42962 as CoreLink Global, also known as CLE, with the website corelink.io, an IRR as-set of AS-CLE1, network type Content, roughly 1,000 IPv4 prefixes and 100 IPv6 prefixes, and 200-300 Gbps of traffic, with fields last updated in 2024 3. That self-reported figure stands in sharp contrast to CIDR Report's 1024 originated address space and RIPEstat's note that the ASN does not originate prefixes visible in RIS.

On connectivity, CIDR Report shows three upstreams for AS42962 — AS20473 (Vultr, US), AS60068 (CDN77/Datacamp, GB) and AS199524 (Gcore, LU) — one downstream, AS136796 (CoreLink Japan), and 1024 originated address space (/22), with embedded RIPE whois identifying a CN-registered LIR with a Beijing, Haidian District address 4.

None of this proves anything about intent. What it shows is a governance and geography puzzle: a Hebei-named legal entity, a Beijing RIPE address, a Hong Kong contact number and service listing [1][7], a global CoreLink brand, and address space routed mainly by affiliates and third parties. RIPE NCC's member list places the company among the Local Internet Registries offering services in Hong Kong 6, a country-based service list the registry publishes to help organisations needing small IPv6 amounts, keyed by ISO 3166-1 codes 7, and its 4-star IPv6 RIPEness list for Hong Kong likewise includes the company 8. The registration facts are consistent; the operational picture is fragmented across self-reported and observed data.