Anyone know the history behind ASN 2906 (Netflix)? How did they get a number that low?
Rick On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > 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? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route > | therefore you are > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ >
