Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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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