[196276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Sat Oct 14 12:53:01 2017
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: James Breeden <James@arenalgroup.co>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 05:47:30 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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James,
As far as I know, you can't buy an existing ASN for any amount of money. Yo=
u can buy the company that owns it, but that seems like boiling tea with a =
blowtorch.
I sincerely doubt there are unused low-number ASNs, but you could always as=
k ARIN.
I'm curious what your client's rationale is for wanting a low ASN. It can't=
be efficiency, since the numbers all take the same number of bits ultimate=
ly. If they just like small numbers, I'd advise them to forget it -- life i=
s too short. If they have a real technical reason that nobody has foreseen =
(or at least I haven't foreseen), I'd love to hear it.
-mel beckman
> On Oct 11, 2017, at 10:01 PM, James Breeden <James@arenalgroup.co> wrote:
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> Hello NANOG...
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> I have a client interested in picking up a new AS number but they really =
want it to be 3 or 4 digits in length.
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> Is there a process to request this from ARIN, or doss anyone know of unus=
ed ASns fitting this that anyone is looking to sell for some quick cash?
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> Thanks!
> James
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