[146615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Thu Nov 17 10:56:05 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:55:41 -0500
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
CC: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMbSiYApG_e7SDiCdgL+RkY38nXExj+zt0No0a1AsU+yDkAZKg@mail.gmail.com>
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Dave Hart wrote:
> AS path geeks:
>
> At the risk of invoking ire and eliciting comparisons to the
> widely-reviled and growing practice of selling IPv4 addresses, I'm
> wondering if anyone has sold legacy AS numbers for quick cash.
I have heard first hand stories of folks being offered 5 figures
for four digit ASN's in the past (and they did not sell btw). That was
before ARIN started recycling unused short ASN's two years ago. There
was a three month period in 2009 where almost every ASN assigned by ARIN
was < 10000 as they burned through the backlog.
- Kevin
