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Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-want-get-bent dept.

goombah99 writes "The New phone number rules that allow you to keep your phone number when you switch carriers has given rise to phone nascent number property rights. On E-bay you can bid on 867-5309 (made famous by Tommy Tutone's Jenny I got your number). As I write this the bid is over $8000 dollars with seven days to go. What other numbers are famous or valuable? Will we see a land rush like the internet names?"

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  1. Ralph Nader is running for President in 2004!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Finally! I won't have to choose between Bush and Bush Lite(John Kerry).
    Lets send both of those Rich Boy New England Yale grads packing and vote for a TRUE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE!