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 <kl...@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. >> > > 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 > > >
