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Re: economic value of low AS numbers
From: Richard Irving <rirving () antient org>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:01:31 -0500
</lurk>Since AS1 (BBNPLANET) was bought for around 666 million way back when, as I recall..
your 1k purchase would be -outstanding-. <lurk> On 11/17/2011 01:55 PM, Keegan Holley wrote:
2011/11/17 David Conrad<drc () virtualized org>On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Keegan Holley wrote:Besides standing at the water cooler at 1:23PM on 12/3 telling AS123jokesI'm not sure a particular AS number has any relevance or any monetaryvalueunless 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. I suppose I can't argue with that, but anyone technical enough to knowwhat an AS is should know better. Also, would it really count? What if I opened a small ISP in some carrier hotel and paid 1000 bucks for AS 1. I'm not sure I'd want to sign a contract with someone dumb enough to think I was the first company on the internet.
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