[146620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu Nov 17 11:18:47 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EC52E7D.5040403@kl.net>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:16:57 -0500
To: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Besides standing at the water cooler at 1:23PM on 12/3 telling AS123 jokes
I'm not sure a particular AS number has any relevance or any monetary value
unless there is scarcity.
2011/11/17 Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
> 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
>
>
>
