[146640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Thu Nov 17 14:02:53 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:01:31 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@antient.org>
To: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
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Since AS1 (BBNPLANET) was bought for around 666 million way back when,
as I recall..
your 1k purchase would be -outstanding-.
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On 11/17/2011 01:55 PM, Keegan Holley wrote:
> 2011/11/17 David Conrad<drc@virtualized.org>
>
>> On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Keegan Holley wrote:
>>> 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.
>> You are discounting (pun intended) vanity and marketing. I am no longer
>> surprised at what people will be willing to pay (sometimes astonishing
>> amounts of) money for.
>>
>> I suppose I can't argue with that, but anyone technical enough to know
> what an AS is should know better. Also, would it really count? What if I
> opened a small ISP in some carrier hotel and paid 1000 bucks for AS 1. I'm
> not sure I'd want to sign a contract with someone dumb enough to think I
> was the first company on the internet.
