Re: economic value of low AS numbers

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