What happen when I tried to register my facebook.com/username?

Posted on June 13, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What happen when I tried to register my facebook.com/username?

So I was live streaming registering for my facebook.com/username and this is what happen from the one minute until 12:01 mark.

In the mean time, facebook.com/sexyman has been taken. Oh someone really wanted that.

Also @TarheelEvan create a group called: Give Wayne Sutton His Facebook Username and my wife facebook.com/latoyamacksutton got hers. It looks @skydiver is have some trouble too getting the name he requested.

Come on Facebook guys, I know who you are… help a friend out.

Update: I did reserved my name as a trademark with facebook a few days ago and I think that’s the reason I can’t reserve my name tonight. “I think” , we’ll see.

Update #2: I received an email from Facebook at 2:00 A.M. saying “Thank you for submitting your trademark term(s). We’ve seen a large number of submissions and over the next few weeks we expect we’ll introduce a process for trademark owners to request the use of their restricted terms. We appreciate your patience in the interim and will be in touch soon.”

This is great news but I talked to another facebook user who did the same thing and he was able to register his name and it would have been nice if I received the email a day or three hours earlier. But still Facebook.com/waynesutton will be registered soon. I hope. To be continued …

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This entry was posted on Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 12:44 am and is filed under Featured, Social Media, social networks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

http://www.zacjohnson.com/ Zac Johnson

If you registered for the trademark name, this is probably why it was not available. I did a trademark on my company name, and wasn’t able to register it under another fb account. Contact FB and they should be able to fix it if that is the case.
.-= Zac Johnson´s last blog ..The Coming of Facebook Vanity URLs =-.
http://www.zacjohnson.com Zac Johnson

If you registered for the trademark name, this is probably why it was not available. I did a trademark on my company name, and wasn’t able to register it under another fb account. Contact FB and they should be able to fix it if that is the case.
.-= Zac Johnson´s last blog ..The Coming of Facebook Vanity URLs =-.
http://done21.com/ Nick Pettit

I feel you Wayne, I wanted facebook.com/nick but it’s less than 5 characters AND taken by a Facebook employee.

I ended up with http://facebook.com/nickpettit though which is the username I try to use everywhere, so I’m happy.

I’m sure you’ll get this sorted out! I’m rooting for you!
http://done21.com Nick Pettit

I feel you Wayne, I wanted facebook.com/nick but it’s less than 5 characters AND taken by a Facebook employee.

I ended up with http://facebook.com/nickpettit though which is the username I try to use everywhere, so I’m happy.

I’m sure you’ll get this sorted out! I’m rooting for you!
http://done21.com/ Nick Pettit

One more fun fact, me and a few others discovered that Facebook ignores periods in the URL! So http://www.facebook.com/nickpettit works just the same as http://www.facebook.com/………..NICK……….PETTIT……….

Just thought I’d share. Again, good luck
http://done21.com Nick Pettit

One more fun fact, me and a few others discovered that Facebook ignores periods in the URL! So http://www.facebook.com/nickpettit works just the same as http://www.facebook.com/………..NICK……….PETTIT……….

Just thought I’d share. Again, good luck
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