[146668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Thu Nov 17 16:59:43 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:58:37 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <F90F1725-3115-4918-A5BE-4BD82B17DD00@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:21:59AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> 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.
UAE license plate auctions, "1" sold for $14 million
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJ8EZTdrItjs
Lebanon phone number auction, 71-444444 went for $68,000
http://www.ameinfo.com/207677.html
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