Vanity ASNs are a horrible idea, IMHO... Unless you want WIPO to come in and start applying UDRP to IP addresses and ASNs, I suggest this be avoided. Owen On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Mans Nilsson wrote:
Subject: RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Date: Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:40:07PM -0500 Quoting Aaron Wendel (aaron@wholesaleinternet.net):
I sent an inquiry in to ARIN yesterday for a certain ASN that was available and was told that management won't allow them to issue requested numbers. :(
RIPE does, correctly prodded ;-)
% Information related to 'AS31337'
aut-num: AS31337 as-name: ELEET-AS descr: ELEET Network descr: Location: Sweden
(Story is, IIRC, that adjacent number was assigned initially, but the confirmation mail was answered with "Can I have 31337 instead?" which in turn was granted. )
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