If I recall correctly, six digit icq id's were selling for thousands of dollars.

Really? I have a 6-digit one (below 250K actually). I just fired it up this morning for the first time in years after reading about AIM.

Nah, $6+ if you buy in the right place. $300+ for 5-digits

http://www.myuin.com

I assume they were talking about in the past. Like a decade ago or earlier. Though 6 digit ones selling for thousands still seems a bit much unless they were appealing rounded numbers. 5 digits for thousands of dollars was def a thing in the mid 00s.

Bingo. Today's value of the network is different. Kind of the value of twitter handles before insta and snap showed up

Things have changed even more. The person with NYC or NewYorkCity IG handle now has a lucrative reportedly 6 figure income from that profile now by promoting NYC things.

Wow, just logged into my 6 digit ICQ for the first time in years. I can’t believe I remembered my password.

Low 7 digits. Only about 12 months earlier it was much lower, iirc

Low 8 digits, though I had an earlier one I lost the password to.

sigh