Anybody else have their Facebook Vanity URL Squatted?

How do you do this?

I can't figure out how to do it ;-(

$10 says Jake Smith is going to even poorer, and more unhappy when I shove my foot up his @ss.

Yeah I know posting here will accomplish nothing. I've reported him to Facebook, contacted him personally, and ranted here.

We'll see what happens.

Hi Jason,

I was just checking out your slideshow - is that Greg Noll in there?

I wrote a short blog post describing the BS...

The Facebook Vanity URL Debacle |

I saw that. But, he's obviously not the real Kanye.

Hi Jason,

(tongue in cheek) I understand your frustration, but perhaps it's someone who bought that product of yours a while back about buying youtube IDs for traffic, and they were inspired by the concept and thought that this might be a good way to make some coin using a similar concept?

Sorry, couldn't resist the tease :p If Greg Noll was an IMer, that's the kind of thing he'd do (while wearing stripey b/w shorts).

I seriously doubt that you will get it just by contacting them.

The basis for this "vanity url" was for each person to gain a username, not necessarily your actual name.

Wish you luck.

-Christian

And you linking to his profile is just helping him understand what sort of traffic you can send.

Yes first thing is keep it quiet and make your case with facebook directly.

Going public puts you at disadvantage as any good lawyer will tell you.

Note: I'm not a lawyer. But I've had domain name experiences similar to yours.

Good luck with that, I couldn't think of a more pointless waste of time and money.

Let's be honest your probably not the only Jason Moffatt on the planet what would stop another Jason Moffatt suing you for mis-representing him on the internet.

It's ridiculas and it's got to stop.

Your behaviour is just is important as the person who registered the vanity url.

I respect that your a successfuly Internet Marketer who generates alot of income, however it doesn't give you the right over every social media site to use the name Jason Moffatt.

Let's be real about the situation the person who is using the url has a locked profile (friends only) and he/she cannot redirect the url or really do much with it other that point it the facebook profile. (Pretty pointless excercise)

So it has no real money value because of that. I can see why it's worth alot to you personally and you have online reputation to protect.

You could go down the path like Shoemoney aka Jeremy Schoemaker and create a unqiue name and trademark. That would definately give you the upperhand in matters like this.

I want to thank you Jason for bringing it up! I've been a member here for years and it's very rare that I comment on such post becuase they are few and far between!

Regards
Myles Agnew