Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers

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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Re:Old stuff (and higher prices) in China

[kdogg765]

I remember an article on Steve Wozniak, where he had acquired a long-time goal of 888-8888 as his cell phone number. The problem with having that as your phone number was all the calls from little kids who would pick up a phone and hit the number 8 many times. It was bad enough that he was fored to abandon the phone number. I can't find the original article, but I'm pretty sure it was in Wired. -K