Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

A couple of fun facts about this guy:

His little ISP is AS267, which is a SHOCKINGLY low number. That's like.. the ISP equiv of a 4 digit slashdot id, or owning something like sodapop.com.

He's also one of the authors of RFC 5575, which is a pretty big deal in the DDoS world.

My university’s is number 2; is there any significance to that?

Is your university among these? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/...

University of Delaware, per this: https://dnschecker.org/asn-whois-lookup.php?query=AS2

So, not on that map, but it was part of ARPANET by the time the TCP/IP protocol was introduced in 1983[0], per this map: https://www.historyofinformation.com/image.php?id=6456

[0]: https://blog.google/inside-google/googlers/marking-birth-of-...

I wonder why there's so many weird domains being hosted on AS2? https://dnslytics.com/bgp/as2 (scroll down to Top Domains)