Facebook has announced that tomorrow night tomorrow at midnight they will open up the vanity url’s.
If it looks anything like facebook ads lately that means the race will be on for facebook.com/acaiberry and facebook.com/iqtest
But seriously this is a opportunity you will not want to miss out on.
A couple months ago facebook offered me facebook.com/shoemoney for my fan page and its been awesome! I love being able to tell people just to goto facebook.com/shoemoney … so simple.
Don’t let your business/moniker get taken!
Also for those who have big plans to sell a vanity url Facebook will not allow changing or transferring of urls:
Think carefully about the username you choose. Once it’s been selected, you won’t be able to change or transfer it. If you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you may not be able to sign up for a username immediately because of steps we’ve taken to prevent abuse or “squatting” on names.
Of course that doesn’t mean you cant register a new account, squat, then sell the account? Maybe it does, but I expect there will be some issues.
To preempt those kinds of problems Facebook is asking people to email them if they have a trademarked or protected name
So anyway Tomorrow night at midnight EST the madness starts.
Here is the URL you need to goto to register your Facebook vanity url
Good luck!!!
June 11, 2009 at 11:20 am
This will be great. It will be much easier to give the url out now. My name is way too common, I’m hoping I get my first choice.
June 11, 2009 at 11:20 am
is this just for personal branding as I thought facebook only allowed individuals to have a profile
June 11, 2009 at 11:29 am
This will be very much easier for people across internet to start giving URL to each other.
I am going to keep my URL as facebook.com/shoemoney …lol…Kidding
June 11, 2009 at 12:06 pm
wicked I cant wait to snatch up all the good urls then sit on them and never do anything with it
June 11, 2009 at 12:09 pm
прочитал с большим интересом — очень очень понравилось
June 11, 2009 at 12:19 pm
This will be a great service . Because these URLs are much easier to remember.
June 11, 2009 at 12:21 pm
When are they going to let you change your profile background. I actually HATE all of the ads that are on the side of facebook they are soo stupid and if someone clicks on them I do NOT pity them if their computer blows up.
Stop it Facebook, stop it.
June 11, 2009 at 12:36 pm
they gotta pay the bills
June 11, 2009 at 1:04 pm
If you hate those ads, what are you doing here?
June 11, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Your the type of person that will probably lead to the downfall of Twitter! Must be free.. how dare they try to profit!
June 13, 2009 at 3:36 am
If you do not like that … than I am sure you wont like any TV shows as well … because of ads.
June 11, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I wonder if this changes searchability. And I wonder if more searchable URLs is a backdoor ripe for hacking.
But I dunno, it’s probably just cool.
June 11, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I was gonna take shoemoney. Do you think that is taken?
June 11, 2009 at 12:56 pm
umm its already in use duh
June 12, 2009 at 4:18 am
Lol too bad my friend!
June 13, 2009 at 3:31 am
You have missed a million dollar opportunity. Jeremy got it from facebook personally and that also few months back.
June 11, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I think this will actually be pretty cool – another way to market myself and products.
June 11, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Shoe, i think your readers would benefit from the following info:
Although it is a ‘mad rush’ for the clean usernames, it won’t be that simple.
In order to qualify for the name you want to ’squat’ on there are several factors they have stated on their FAQ pages:
If you have a fan page and want to get a custom URL, you MUST have registered it before May 31st and you must also have over 1000 fans.
This will definitely weed out a lot of useless pages that have been created for the purpose of squatting.
ALSO no one mentioned this but Facebook has mentioned that the URL you choose can NOT be a ‘generic’ search term such as ‘used cars’, ‘flowers’, etc. I’m pretty sure it has to be similar to whatever you current ‘real name’ is listed as.
thoughts anyone? It appears that they have actually done an alright job of containing a potential mad rush for URLs by squatters, however I’m sure there are many out there who were aware of this and got over 1000 fans prior to may 31st… we’ll see Saturday!
- @KRONiS -
June 12, 2009 at 8:31 am
Okay, that’s interesting about the generic terms. In addition to my work life, I have an “after hours” life as a writer but my fan page for that doesn’t meet the 5/31 deadline. Still, if I use my real name, I strongly suspect won’t have any squatters competing for it.
@ClickResponse
June 11, 2009 at 1:05 pm
If you make the profile open to the public…Would it have any effects on SEO?
I just read this Shoemeister and it’s quite humorous…I hope it isn’t true…
http://www.vanhara.com/2007/01/21/is-jeremy-shoemaker-aka-shoemoney-scam/
June 11, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Hmmm now the question what do I want for mine? I think I will start the official trend of just having it be your full name!!! YES! FACE!
June 11, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Amazing news I am keep looking at that watch I would love to register as my friend name I hope I will be successfull in it. Thanks Jeremy to post this otherwise i wouldnt have done that.
June 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm
It’s actually gonna be 7am for me, and I’m thinking facebook servers much crash under the load, so waking up that early? probably not.
June 11, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I see facebook is trying to compete with Myspace, even though I feel like facebook is a little more popular than myspace. this could actually be a good thing (besides the fact that people will become 10 times more narcasstic now) but it does help if you are looking to promote yourself online.
June 11, 2009 at 3:09 pm
damn.. getting 1,000 fans is not that easy..
wish the starting limit was 100
June 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm
cool. now facebook is learning from twitter and myspace and…
June 11, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Seems like Facebook isn’t going to allow anyone to post ads all day and spam their network without paying for it and being approved first.
PS. Shoemoneyx is mine!!!
June 11, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Excellent! I am going to put a reminder in my cell phone… I hope the Facebook server don’t collapse tomorrow
June 11, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Most of the good names are already taken.
June 11, 2009 at 7:55 pm
i never use facebook until now
June 11, 2009 at 9:14 pm
you need 1000 fans to have a face book urls. It is really ridiculous.
June 11, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I just got my last facebook account slapped for self-promotion. They’re incredible Nazis on there.
June 12, 2009 at 2:26 am
I probably the only one commenting here never use face book before. I got to try!
June 12, 2009 at 2:32 am
*thumbs down!* No name squatting
!!!
-Mike
June 12, 2009 at 2:42 am
this will be a good idea,
June 12, 2009 at 3:45 am
Yeah the problem will be how many people in the world have the same name? As facebook grows the problem will only get worse
June 12, 2009 at 4:15 am
Yeah, this is a great idea.
June 12, 2009 at 4:18 am
I think this additional feature is cool and glad facebook took this extra step..
June 12, 2009 at 6:02 am
I think it is one of the worthy development that is happening. Facebook is the most important tool to meet and entertain. It is really great to have a personal url there. I am among the first to try and make the most of the opportunity.
Facebook is where it is because of its continuing innovative process. I think this is one factor that will top the list of priorities in the days to come.
June 12, 2009 at 6:27 am
So has anyone gotten their vanity url today yet?
June 12, 2009 at 7:50 am
Yeah, good thing they took precautions otherwise there would have been lots of issues.
June 12, 2009 at 9:17 am
After this will rolled out successfully i am sure FACE book value will go HIGH by atleast few hundred thousand million $$
June 12, 2009 at 11:24 am
I was wondering when they would release this for everyone.
June 12, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Same here, i cant wait till get my name on it. Dino is a very common name in italy!!
But oh well!
Dinono.com
June 12, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Thanks Jeremy – good to know.
I will create one now.
June 12, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Beautiful Article!
I run to create one now!
June 12, 2009 at 8:05 pm
After getting your email this morning regarding this issue, I did a little surfing and found an interesting take on this situation on US News and World report.(The have well over 2 million uniques reported this month plus they have print media) Here is a permalink to a comment I made on it and you can see the original article US News cited which I feel is very poorly researched.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/john-farrell/2009/06/12/usernames-will-kill-facebook/comments/#3072560
June 12, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I got my name
It seems like you don’t need 1,000 fans.
Your account must be setup before June 9 as the only criteria.
June 12, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I didn’t get my name..oh well I think I will live.
June 15, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Dude, in order for the 1000 fans limit (not FRIENDS) to be in effect, that would be when you are trying to get a username for one of the PAGES you have setup from the ‘Ads and Pages’ link in the bottom left corner. most people just have a regular account with zero pages, therefor you got yours likely for your regular facebook account, not a page you created, otherwise you would have been told – sorry you do not meet the criteria at this time.
June 13, 2009 at 2:54 am
cool! I got the name that I wanted “seojobs” without any dots or anything else!
June 13, 2009 at 2:55 am
The greatest benefit of Facebook is that it has many groups on the site that you can join. So if you are interested in Chicago Cubs you can research Chicago Cubs in the groups section and you will be able to find friends on there that like the Cubs. This is just one example, I know that you can join groups of your favorite football team, television show, or whatever you want for the most part! If you can’t find a group for your interest, you can simply create one!
James
June 13, 2009 at 6:33 am
Thank you shoe for the great share. i am going to head over to facebook to see if the offer is still available. I am not sure what I am going to do with it if I get one. Still to have a page as a sub section of facebook is more than just cool. thanks Zuckerberg
June 13, 2009 at 12:08 pm
They denied my Asswass Page :S. They said that I nedd at least 1.000 fans and I only have 222. Help me out.
July 19, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Got the name I wanted so excited!!!
July 31, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I got mine! Nice to have a more unique name..:]