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_________