Facebook Landrush

[lordbyroniv]

Just curious if anybody here knew ahead of time and partook tonight

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-...during-facebooks-domain-name-land-rush-2009-6

Boards have been silent on this particular landrush

 

[hysteriaweb]

I got http://www.facebook.com/domaining

Add me as a friend while you are at it!

 

[lordbyroniv]

I got http://www.facebook.com/domaining

Add me as a friend while you are at it!

Good job

 

[DN BROKER]

how do you add a username like that?

 

[hysteriaweb]

Log into your facebook account, at the top you will see an area to click.

 

[lordbyroniv]

I used the help link in the footer to get to the registration page

Got some very nice generics for my family

Lets see how these babies optimize

 

[DN BROKER]

when you log in - paste this http://www.facebook.com/username

 

[Tia Wood]

Mine: http://www.facebook.com/domaindevelopment

 

[lordbyroniv]

Nice

 

[petrosc]

got http://www.facebook.com/CosmeticSurgery after trying a few domain and plastic surgery generics

 

[hugegrowth]

looks like facebook is reserving some top names, like many major cities don't resolve to a page, and words like casino, etc. does anyone know if they're holding some back? I think it's worth trying to get a meaningful username on facebook, and most will probably be gone soon.

 

[lordbyroniv]

looks like facebook is reserving some top names, like many major cities don't resolve to a page, and words like casino, etc. does anyone know if they're holding some back? I think it's worth trying to get a meaningful username on facebook, and most will probably be gone soon.

Lots of great names got taken fast

www.facebook.com/homeloan disappeared right away

 

[petrosc]

looks like facebook is reserving some top names, like many major cities don't resolve to a page, and words like casino, etc. does anyone know if they're holding some back? I think it's worth trying to get a meaningful username on facebook, and most will probably be gone soon.

it would be smart of them to auction off the best names

 

[lordbyroniv]

it would be smart of them to auction off the best names

Lots of names were reserved by TM holders before the landrush

 

[petrosc]

really? did not know that was there a sunrise period for this?

 

[imneazmh]

Very nice names indeed.

 

[lordbyroniv]

really? did not know that was there a sunrise period for this?

Yes, there was a sunrise period since I believe 6/9 for TM holders to reserve

Not alot of time

In fact, Facebook just emailed as below :

Hi,

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.

Allison
User Operations
Facebook

 

[Giode]

I'm not really a big Facebook'er, but under my wife's account snagged Facebook.com/AutoLoan. Now I feel a little bad since she's stuck with a name that really doesn't make any sense for her profile :lol:

She didn't seem to mind though.

 

[VirtualT]

I settled for http://facebook.com/VirtualT

 

[Onward]

I got www.facebook.com/investigators