economic value of low AS numbers

Thu Nov 17 16:16:57 UTC 2011

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.

2011/11/17 Kevin Loch <kloch at kl.net>

> Dave Hart wrote:
>
>> AS path geeks:
>>
>> At the risk of invoking ire and eliciting comparisons to the
>> widely-reviled and growing practice of selling IPv4 addresses, I'm
>> wondering if anyone has sold legacy AS numbers for quick cash.
>>
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> I have heard first hand stories of folks being offered 5 figures
> for four digit ASN's in the past (and they did not sell btw).   That was
> before ARIN started recycling unused short ASN's two years ago.  There
> was a three month period in 2009 where almost every ASN assigned by ARIN
> was < 10000 as they burned through the backlog.
>
> - Kevin
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