[196216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Radu-Adrian Feurdean)
Fri Oct 13 08:18:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog@radu-adrian.feurdean.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1296F0D8-34CD-4C9F-8EF2-82714EDC98CC@beckman.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:51:54 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017, at 07:47, Mel Beckman wrote:
> James,
>
> As far as I know, you can't buy an existing ASN for any amount of money.
You can in RIPE region, but you must first find an "owner" ready to
tranfer it (for money or for free). ASN transfers do happen here, and
there are indications that they happen in ARIN region too (
https://www.ipv4auctions.com/customer/account/previous/ - search for
ASN).
