Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Selling an Interesting Telephone Number? Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 89 23:59:49 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: Stanford University Lines: 21 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 110, message 6 of 6 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 $1000 for turning over this number during the Centennial". My "commercially interesting" number, by the way, is 326-6669 = ECONOMY. Wasn't certain whether I wanted to publish it or not. Sorry for the mailer foulups -- not certain if it's the system here, my novice skills (just learning rn and Unix), or what. A. E. Siegman siegman@sierra.stanford.edu [Moderator's Note: This is a repeat of the message which was lost in transit a couple days ago. The author saw my request and resent it to us. PT]