economic value of low AS numbers

Thu Nov 17 15:55:41 UTC 2011

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.

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