economic value of low AS numbers

Thu Nov 17 20:27:27 UTC 2011

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

Assets acquired by Sun Microsystems do maybe Oracle today.

  -b

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On Nov 17, 2011, at 14:30, Dave Hart <davehart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:08, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
>> whois -h whois.arin.net 42
> 
> RFC 943:
> 
> 42  THINK-AS                                          [BJN1]
> 
>   [BJN1]    Bruce Nemnich       TMC       BJN at MIT-MC.ARPA
> 
> I have no idea which registry was maintaining AS number registrations
> when AS42 changed hands.  I suppose it's possible the current
> registrant acquired or merged with whatever entity THINK refers to,
> but I doubt it, so it seems likely at least at one time transfers were
> reflected in updated registrations.
> 
> I bet Douglas would have been tickled.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart