Comments on: Facebook land grab at midnight http://www.pilmerpr.com/blog/uncategorized/facebook-land-grab-at-midnight/ Public Relations -finding customers & reaching target markets Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andon Carling http://www.pilmerpr.com/blog/uncategorized/facebook-land-grab-at-midnight/comment-page-1/#comment-2917 Andon Carling Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:50:42 +0000 http://www.pilmerpr.com/blog/?p=239#comment-2917 Since Facebook is the behemoth of social networks, its no wonder people are putting great value in usernames. Fortunately, Facebook has set up regulations to prevent unethical username hoarding (or "squatting"). Here are some rules to consider: You can only select a username for your own profile, or a page you administer. To register a page, it must have been live and had 1,000 fans PRIOR TO MAY 31 (so no creating pages just to grab the names). It is also against Facebook's TOS to create multiple user accounts. They have banned people for doing such things. To prevent people from claiming a username directly related to you, or your company's, trademark (for example, "pilmerpr"), fill out this form on Facebook's Web site: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights If somebody else has already claimed a username that infringes on your trademark, fill out the "IP infringement" form, and they'll review your claim: http://www.facebook.com/copyright.php?noncopyright_notice=1 And, for your information, usernames must be at least five characters long, and contain only letters, numbers, and periods (no spaces). It is currently restricted to the Romanized alphabet, but they are working to expand it. Since Facebook is the behemoth of social networks, its no wonder people are putting great value in usernames. Fortunately, Facebook has set up regulations to prevent unethical username hoarding (or “squatting”). Here are some rules to consider:

You can only select a username for your own profile, or a page you administer. To register a page, it must have been live and had 1,000 fans PRIOR TO MAY 31 (so no creating pages just to grab the names). It is also against Facebook’s TOS to create multiple user accounts. They have banned people for doing such things.

To prevent people from claiming a username directly related to you, or your company’s, trademark (for example, “pilmerpr”), fill out this form on Facebook’s Web site: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights

If somebody else has already claimed a username that infringes on your trademark, fill out the “IP infringement” form, and they’ll review your claim: http://www.facebook.com/copyright.php?noncopyright_notice=1

And, for your information, usernames must be at least five characters long, and contain only letters, numbers, and periods (no spaces). It is currently restricted to the Romanized alphabet, but they are working to expand it.

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