Feb 26
Remember how Naoki Hiroshima lost his amazing $50,000 @N Twitter username
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Feb 19
The way we’re identified online needs to catch up to the modern Internet.
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Aug 26
Yahoo doling out inactive usernames to new owners, opens a Watchlist for $1.99
Posted in: Today's Chili
Yahoo users eager for a name change began logging their interest for inactive usernames in mid-July, and now Mayer and Co. are finally ready to re-assign dormant email addresses. Messages from the search giant are going out to folks who applied for a new identity, notifying them if one of their screen names of choice is ready for the taking. Those who struck out on desired account names will automatically have their choices added to a “Watchlist,” and will be alerted if and when they’re freed up. While keeping tabs on preferred monikers via the Watchlist is free for those who registered their interest in snapping up handles, it’ll cost others the princely sum of $1.99 to monitor availability for three years. Click the neighboring source links to stake out a maximum of five names you’re partial to.
Filed under: Internet
Via: Marketing Land
Jun 12
Unless you’re quick to sign up with new services, snagging a simple user ID with your name, or just about any word from the English dictionary, can be unlikely. If you’re only first joining Yahoo today (for one reason or another), however, registering any account without a handful of random numbers tacked on at the end is downright impossible. That’ll soon change. The internet giant has announced on Tumblr that come July 15th, IDs that have been inactive for more than a year will be released to the public, giving shoegurlmary1992@yahoo.com a chance to snag mary@yahoo.com, for example. The decision seems perfectly reasonable to us. We only hope that other sites (Twitter) follow suit.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Next Web
Source: Yahoo (Tumblr)
Oct 06
It’s a fact of life nowadays: you start coming up with usernames before you are mature enough to come up with usernames that aren’t completely stupid and totally embarassing years down the line. I did it. You did it. It’s both something to be ashamed of, but nothing to be ashamed of being ashamed of. It’s time to share. More »
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