On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
On 12/10/2017 08:47, Mel Beckman wrote:
James,
As far as I know, you can't buy an existing ASN for any amount of money. You
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 ask
ARIN.
I'm curious what your client's rationale is for wanting a low ASN.
It is called ASN-envy.
And here smaller is better :)
How would one go about cleaning up the provenance and either re-using or
selling an ASN, supposing:
1) you are all the registered contacts for the ASN and your ARIN POC is
still valid
2) the ASN was owned by (ok...it's ARIN[1], so "registered to") a defunct
corporation (inactive >10 years) of which you were part-owner
3) the ARIN maintenance fees have been unpaid >10 years...yet the ASN
still exists in whois
[1] It was actually assigned pre-ARIN, but to an org that eventually
signed the RSA...so I wonder...are the maintenance fees really past
due...and is this why the ASN was never reclaimed while the IP space
(which was allocated by ARIN) was?
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