[146649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Nov 17 15:29:10 2011
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From: Barry Shein <bzs@TheWorld.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:27:27 -0500
To: "davehart_gmail_exchange_tee@davehart.net"
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
Assets acquired by Sun Microsystems do maybe Oracle today.
-b
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On Nov 17, 2011, at 14:30, Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:08, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>> whois -h whois.arin.net 42
>
> RFC 943:
>
> 42 THINK-AS [BJN1]
>
> [BJN1] Bruce Nemnich TMC BJN@MIT-MC.ARPA
>
> I have no idea which registry was maintaining AS number registrations
> when AS42 changed hands. I suppose it's possible the current
> registrant acquired or merged with whatever entity THINK refers to,
> but I doubt it, so it seems likely at least at one time transfers were
> reflected in updated registrations.
>
> I bet Douglas would have been tickled.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart
