Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Selling an Interesting Telephone Number? Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 89 02:10:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Reply-To: "Anthony E. Siegman" Organization: Stanford University Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 105, message 4 of 7 My residential phone number (415 area code) happens to spell a quite commercially interesting word. During the 15-plus years I've had this number I've had a couple of inquiries from businesses wanting to take it over, paying me something for giving it up. A recent one seems serious. Anyone have any thoughts on the dollar value of such a number? Rumor has it that someone whose all-digit dialing number was "AMERICA" got [Moderator's note: And that is all I received. An attempt to send mail to the author also bounced. The rest of the mesage never did arrive. Perhaos the author will see this reference and mail me a complete message once again. The messate was badly mangled when it got here to Chicago. PT]