On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:21:59AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Keegan Holley wrote:
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.
You are discounting (pun intended) vanity and marketing. I am no longer surprised at what people will be willing to pay (sometimes astonishing amounts of) money for.
UAE license plate auctions, "1" sold for $14 million http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJ8EZTdrItjs Lebanon phone number auction, 71-444444 went for $68,000 http://www.ameinfo.com/207677.html -- [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ stressed spelled backwards is desserts. ] [ coincidence? i think not. ]