[syphus]

AOL, otherwise known as AOL Time Warner is a market share blocker. Time Warner use it as an advertisement flotilla and asset mine when profits look grim. Still, despite being a lumbering dinosaur that everyone apparently hates, AOL still generates revenues in excess of $10 billion. If anyone wanted it, and I'm sure they do, they could never afford it.

Unless things turn around, most of AOL's ISP assets will evaporate in a decade or less and they'll just be trading on the web name alone...like google.