Myles Agnew

Last week facebook did a very cool people friendly thing by releasing  vanity urls.

Which allow you to find people more easily ie http://www.facebook.com/mylesagnew

Now this is fantasic for me becuase there are only 3 other Myles Agnew’s on the planet so I had 33% chance of getting that name and to be honest the onther guy’s aren’t really interested in the internet so it was easy.

Then you have people that have the same name say “John Smith” for example imagine how many people with that name would have been trying to get it.

Then comes here comes the losers..

(You can’t have winners without losers it’s impossible!)

John Reese didn’t get his name http://www.facebook.com/johnreese Some wierd Facebook Profile did.

Jason Moffat didn’t get http://www.facebook.com/jasonmoffatt apparently Jake Smith beat him to the punch

Then Jason proceeded to winge and wine  about his failure to register on his blog..

My profile has been jacked by some dickhead named Jake Smith. My buddy John Reese got his snatched too. Same with Frank Kern

(Actually Frank Kern isn’t registered or has been deregistered)

A vanity URL looks like this http://www.facebook.com/jasonmoffatt (which I should be the rightful owner of).

I’ve sent Facebook a message and sent the squatter a message. Hopefully it will be rectified soon. If not, I’m thinking of going Tony LaRussa on them as this is pure bullshit they allowed this to happen so easily.

Actually Jason  doesn’t own the domain facebook.com nor do they, (Facebook) they lease the right to it by paying a yearly subscription to a registrar. As for the name Jason Moffat I’m pretty sure that’s not a Trademarked name  and  there is probably more than one Jason Moffatt in the world.

Some Winners!

Joel Comm http://www.facebook.com/joelcomm

Brad Semp http://www.facebook.com/bradsemp

First Vanity Name Transfer

(That I know of anyway)

Special mention to Chef Patrick who registered http://www.facebook.com/problogger and requested facebook to transfer it to fellow Aussie Darren Rowse of http://www.problogger.net fame.

Chef Patrick is true domainer and gentleman, and  just by this action of make sure Darren was able to use the vanity is true display of Chef Patrick’s charactor and business ethics, some that alot of domainers are missing.

So there you go, Facebook vanity urls used and abuse by people what are your thoughts?

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