So tell me! I am curious what vanity facebook url did you get during the landrush.
I love to see what people choose:
My Page: Shoemoney
My Wife : Anesthesiologist
Dillsmack: Dellanave
It was tough for me to decide. My first choice was “jeremy” but I was too slow. My second choice was “marketer” but again to slow…. then I went for internet marketer and got it!
In hindsight I am pretty happy with the choice.
So what did you get?
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
More about Jeremy at http://www.shoemoney.com!
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July 27, 2009 at 2:08 pm
http://facebook.com/mlmlaw
July 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm
For my fan page, Shoe, I got:
http://facebook.com/carletonsheets
Thanks, Shoemoney!
July 19, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I got my name JamesHartje so pretty happy
July 12, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I grabbed http://facebook.com/escoutroom which is pretty unique so there was not an issue.
July 9, 2009 at 9:42 am
I like the 1st one~~~~~~~~!
June 30, 2009 at 2:51 am
Embroidery on Top, Zip Closure, Hanging Strip on one end, Fabric Cotton.
June 24, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I was actually 2 days late. I new about the vanity urls before they were out, but I just forgot. I ended up getting my full name.
June 22, 2009 at 9:24 am
I am not yet registering the url, maybe pemasarinternet
June 20, 2009 at 9:47 am
None so far. Have to wait till my page hits the 1000 followers :S
June 19, 2009 at 7:34 am
http://www.facebook.com/nahid
June 21, 2009 at 12:38 am
Where are you in your facebook photo.
I would advice you to put your own photo only in social network.
June 18, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I just got my surname.. so it facebook.com/bakhos
I didnt want to get my full name because it someone was to search that I want the first search listing to be my blog, not my Facebook page!
June 21, 2009 at 12:39 am
So you do not want to distract your visitors by showing your facebook page.
June 18, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I got http://www.facebook.com/answerblip
June 18, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I got http://www.facebook.com/billross
June 18, 2009 at 8:55 am
I got,
/onlinedating
/acaiberry
/cheaptickets
I think I did very well – thoughts?
June 21, 2009 at 12:40 am
So rest two are of fake accounts or you have used your relative accounts as well.
June 18, 2009 at 8:49 am
I was able to get my name.
But I had to use my whole name.
Its all good though
June 18, 2009 at 4:33 am
facebook.com/selfemployed
June 17, 2009 at 8:54 am
I chose my surname therefore http://www.facebook.com/simiana
June 16, 2009 at 12:04 pm
My name was taken so I used my FULL name: http://www.facebook.com/HollyBethMann/
June 15, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I got http://www.facebook.com/45bob369fgwer
and was very lucky to grab it from others.
June 21, 2009 at 12:42 am
I do not think that any one can create such awesome combination … lollzz
June 15, 2009 at 11:38 am
Well, I got 4 that I think are fantastic. First, facebook.com/kennix. then facebook.com/portlandoregon. facebook.com/clearinternet and the last one was so good, I don’t want to say at this time. I can say I’ve already been contacted by over 50 people trying to talk me out of it. LOL I was really amazed I got it. But if you’re into search marketing, it is a coveted title. ***evil smile***
ken
June 15, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Yeah I was AMAZED at the URL that I got as well. I guess we’ll see if it pays off later or not. It’d be interesting to see all of those contact emails because I’ve only had a few and I thought mine was pretty good.
June 15, 2009 at 11:14 am
My desired username got snagged also! Thinking of another, though.
June 15, 2009 at 10:32 am
Hi
I got http://www.facebook.com/makecashonline
Nice but not exactly the most seached term n’est pas?
June 21, 2009 at 12:46 am
You have got really nice and attractive. Now we would love to see whether this one will give your benefit in SERP rankings.
June 15, 2009 at 10:00 am
I got http://www.facebook.com/SEORomania
June 15, 2009 at 9:16 am
I nabbed
http://www.facebook.com/mikehenry
Lots of names were already gone at 12:10am when I remembered to sign-in.
So thats twitter and facebook that I was able to get one of my top picks w/o a squatter beating me to the punch.
June 15, 2009 at 8:51 am
My name:
http://www.facebook.com/tyler.ford
June 15, 2009 at 8:27 am
I got the keyword “world war 2″ for my fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/worldwar2
or
http://www.facebook.com/world.war.2
June 15, 2009 at 8:23 am
facebook.com/sellporn
Yeah, thats right, I do sell porn. and it does pay. Even if everyone thinks I am a pig.
Oh well.
June 15, 2009 at 8:16 am
I can’t beleive how much hype has been around this. For all those people who got the famous names first let the law suits begin.
June 21, 2009 at 12:54 am
And another opportunity for the lawyer to get more and more business.
Ed Dale started crying for his facebook name as well.
June 15, 2009 at 8:14 am
For my personal page, I got my name. For my company, I wasn’t able to get anything yet because we didn’t meet the time criteria. One of the things I’m working on here is social media presence. We’re under new ownership and it hasn’t been addressed before.
Which is cool, y’know, you get a new job and you have to play on Facebook. Poor me, right?
June 15, 2009 at 7:55 am
http://www.facebook.com/bloggingwithchris
June 21, 2009 at 12:56 am
When we click on your given URL this message was showing …
The page you requested was not found
Seems to me some mistake
June 15, 2009 at 1:20 am
I don’t need to rush, I just use my name ^-^
http://www.facebook.com/turisuna
June 14, 2009 at 11:13 pm
What is social networking, but an opportunity for shameless self-promotion?
I snagged:
http://www.facebook.com/wessrocks
June 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Nothing fancy… I just managed to acquire my name:
http://www.facebook.com/philayres
June 14, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I am boycotting facebook because my girlfriend spends more time on it than she does on me. Seriously, how much fun can it possibly be to email and click around with the geeks from your high school who are now old and balding?
June 14, 2009 at 9:07 pm
http://facebook.com/brutusreport
June 14, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I got one. It will work for me. Please check me out here. I think the FB vanity is a place that will work well. Thanks for keeping me posted Jeremy. I like the X marketer as well. I read is every week. Gives me renewed focus. Which all developers and marketers need.
http://www.facebook.com/russ.bauer
June 14, 2009 at 8:33 pm
You wouldn’t believe it. I run a science fiction blog (http://www.scifiwatch.net) so you could imagine my surprise when I was able to get the below URL on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/sciencefiction
June 14, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I picked up http://www.facebook.com/v.a.b.e.a.c.h.k.e.v.i.n
June 14, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Just me
http://www.facebook.com/KeithCash
June 14, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Did not get what I was looking for so settled for blog name.
June 14, 2009 at 2:44 pm
WOW! Jeremy, you’re genius. You’ve chosen one of the most wanted keywords as your URL. That was smart!
What I chose was my own name as my URL. Here it is:
http://www.facebook.com/Hooshmand.Moslemi
Peace!
Hooshmand
June 14, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I don’t even have a Facebook account.
June 14, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I got http://www.facebook.com/affiliatemarketing
June 14, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Wow, this is a good one…
June 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I managed to pickup http://www.facebook.com/therealjosh to match with my twitter.com/therealjosh also http://www.facebook.com/diamondjewelry It was extremely fun participating in the great facebook landrush.
June 14, 2009 at 11:50 am
I just happen to use my original my name. It was my first choice also.
Http://facebook.com/ferryprima
good enough LoL
June 14, 2009 at 11:43 am
I was lame and just went with my blog name…thought about doing my alter ego (J. Money) but figured i could then never change it if i wanted to…that, and apparently there’s a rapper named J. Money and i didn’t want him coming after me
http://www.facebook.com/budgetsaresexy
June 14, 2009 at 11:00 am
I still haven’t gotten mine. lol. I’ll probably just grab xy7luke or stickycarrots whenever I get on facebook again
June 14, 2009 at 10:54 am
I got: http://www.facebook.com/iam.markonikolic
June 14, 2009 at 8:10 am
I got my name.
http://www.facebook.com/deneilmerritt
June 14, 2009 at 7:03 am
i got http://www.facebook.com/OnlineMarketing
… pretty happy about it
June 14, 2009 at 6:40 am
Hey Jeremy,
I got http://www.Facebook.com/onlinestrategist!
Yeah, like Ben Pei said, do you still accept T-Shirts. I wanna send you one!
June 14, 2009 at 6:36 am
Hehe. I managed to get ‘Gloson’, my first name. Short and personal!
– http://www.facebook.com/gloson
June 14, 2009 at 6:08 am
I got writingleaf
June 14, 2009 at 5:36 am
Got myself http://www.facebook.com/pokerrooms
June 14, 2009 at 4:42 am
Thanks for reminding, got mine – http://www.facebook.com/customwebsite , hoping that it may add value for my new startup.
June 14, 2009 at 4:38 am
I was quick enough to get my name. So I got the url, http://www.facebook.com/dilip.kumar
June 14, 2009 at 4:09 am
I really like this move of facebook. And thats my new url.
http://www.facebook.com/youngistaan
June 14, 2009 at 4:08 am
Mine is http://www.facebook.com/dexter.panganiban
June 14, 2009 at 3:26 am
I was very pleased with the whole event and outcome.
June 14, 2009 at 2:41 am
Was there money to be made on this waste of time? Explain why this really matters.
June 14, 2009 at 2:49 am
branding
June 17, 2009 at 7:25 am
It also makes it much easier for people to find you and something easy to print on a business card if needed.
June 14, 2009 at 2:36 am
Lol my name of coz! http://www.facebook.com/benpei
By the way, do you still accept photos with your shoemoney shirt?
June 14, 2009 at 1:41 am
I got myself the name of my blog which is “Dinono”
so http://www.facebook.com/dinono
June 14, 2009 at 10:03 am
So someone took your Dino … thats very bad.
June 14, 2009 at 1:37 am
http://facebook.com/almerimarlife
Not a huge Facebiok user. Never was and then Twitter came along (MyAppleStuff) and much prefer that.
Looking at Facebook to hep the site (http://almerimarlife.com) grow so was natutral choice
June 14, 2009 at 1:24 am
Just got my usual nickname
http://www.facebook.com/rhodzy
June 14, 2009 at 12:41 am
http://www.facebook.com/ticklethesquid and http://www.facebook.com/resveratrol
I’m a little worried that they’ll block the later, but so far its all good.
June 14, 2009 at 12:40 am
I really wanted just “christian”, but as I was drunk, like a lot of other people friday night, I didnt really got a chance to take part of the rush. So I went with my name, which I hope will get up in the search engines, like my blog is when you search on my name. http://facebook.com/christianjessen
I still blame Facebook developers for having no life, and the date and time they choose, just signals to me, that they wanted the spammers to get first! Who, sorry if I diss anybody, sits in their office, or in front of their computer, 12:01 FRIDAY NIGHT! I dont want to spend my friday night waiting to get a good name. But maybe thats just me, “ofcourse the majority of facebook users is online 12:01 friday night”..
Anyway, congrats with the name. I didnt want to go for anything else then Christian or Christian Jessen, since that is not my name, and thats not the reason for my personal page on Facebook.
June 14, 2009 at 12:34 am
I got http://www.facebook.com/tranharry pretty much my name, same as my blog.
June 13, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I was so lucky that no one uses “The Bad Blogger” Nick —> http://www.facebook.com/TheBadBlogger
June 13, 2009 at 11:31 pm
First choice was ankurjain but have to settle with ankurj
It was not because I was slow but probably they have already reserved my name (journalist or probably FB employee)
June 13, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I got my companies name because someone got my name. I didn’t think the landrush would go that far. I was surprised.
June 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I got one of our brands – http://www.facebook.com/seattletravel/
June 13, 2009 at 10:53 pm
http://facebook.com/thegoodnamesweregone
which goes alongside:
http://delicious.com/thegoodnamesweregone
http://twitter/tgnwg
http://www.tgnwg.com/
http://www.thegoodnamesweregone.com/
Kick ass!
June 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I choose to get http://www.facebook.com/pangeran
my first name, but damn, spammers have come to get it first..
Then I need to choose my fullname
http://www.facebook.com/pangeranwiguan
June 13, 2009 at 10:17 pm
http://facebook.com/clickkt
June 13, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I managed to get my “brand” – http://www.facebook.com/ezyblogger
June 13, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I grabbed http://facebook.com/JoeTech
June 13, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I couldn’t get my name only so i have jlombardo62
June 13, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Interesting that Facebook was meant for personal use and catching up with friends, and now is being used as a sort of landgrab to do something hip and edgy. Internet Marketer is a good one though!
I went with the basic http://www.facebook.com/philgerb because that’s who I am.
June 13, 2009 at 9:57 pm
facebook.com/browie
Got my name.
June 13, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I got http://facebook.com/liposuctiondoctor
Waiting to see what love the search engines give these facebook URLs.
Congrats to your wife; great catch!
June 13, 2009 at 9:56 pm
In the interest of continuing to brand myself, I claimed http://www.facebook.com/jasonbartholme. Nothing fancy, but it serves it’s purpose.
June 13, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Well, I got facebook/jaky.astik
Though, I am pretty sure the (.) has no importance just like google usernames.
June 13, 2009 at 9:46 pm
http://facebook.com/KimOser
I did not go on to Facebook until after 2pm EDT today, 14 hours after they became available. Believe it or not, there are 3 unrelated Kim Osers on Facebook.
I have to wait for my page until June 28 to a vanity url for my page b/c I had less than 1K fans as of 5/31.
June 13, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I decided I’d keep it simple, just grabbed my last name.
http://facebook.com/remick
June 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I tried getting Facebook.com/geno but learned that vanity URLs have to be 5 characters or loner. Ended up getting http://www.facebook.com/prussakov
June 13, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I would probably love to get facebook.com/melvin but someone already has it so i settled for my fullname…
June 13, 2009 at 9:37 pm
nice post.But I don’t have a facebook account.
June 14, 2009 at 10:06 am
And what is the reason of that ?
June 15, 2009 at 10:51 am
Then I think you are losing quite abit of fun there Brad.
June 13, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I got Clark Covington because I figured that would be the worst thing to lose if someone else got it. Aren’t you worried about somebody else grabbing your name, or were you able to do that with another account?
June 13, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Hi Jeremy -
I got my name, which I’m quite pleased about. Also, in the post, I think you meant to link to http://www.facebook.com/anesthesiologist for your wife’s page. – Dave
June 13, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I got facebook.com/marcusneto which is my name. Quite pleased. I didn’t think anyone else would grab it as it is not a common name but you never know.
June 13, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I grabbed http://www.facebook.com/lisa.young … my name is incredibly common so I really did treat it as a landrush
June 13, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I got facebook.com/biggerthenshoemoney…
June 13, 2009 at 8:50 pm
found your comment in the spam founder. Akismet is flagging your ip address as spam. Looks like you have had one to many people report you with the spam button my friend.
June 15, 2009 at 10:52 am
I believe its because of his name.
June 13, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Too bad you scored with a grammatical spelling error: then/than
June 13, 2009 at 10:13 pm
HAHHAHA thats too funny! Now that’s what I call a “zing!”
June 14, 2009 at 11:07 am
Geez thanks for the information, I’ve known that for a long time!! Whoaa
And I meant, Bigger size wise…Your what like 200 lbs? I got ya!
June 13, 2009 at 8:10 pm
i think the shorten URL is good than longer ones. so my facebook url is http://facebook.com/bilin
it’s just five letters and it’s the smallest length.
June 13, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I use “mickmel” for everything, and was able to snag it:
http://www.facebook.com/mickmel
June 13, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I got http://facebook.com/brandoneley . I thought about getting /beley since I use it for a lot of sites, but opted for my entire name instead.
I noticed that Darren Rowse, Wayne Sutton, Chris Brogan and several others did not get their own names. I think there were a lot of people trying to snipe names of popular Internet personalities (and maybe regular celebrities too).
June 13, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I was lucky and got my name. Facebook.com/seaneddy
June 13, 2009 at 7:35 pm
We got http://www.facebook.com/ultimatetoronto, tried to get just “Toronto” but was too slow. It’s all good, as the name we chose is the name of our site.
June 13, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Got my last name! http://www.facebook.com/brannum
Yes!
June 13, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I got /carloan
It’s memorable as it makes all the people who I have told go “wtf..?”
Hehe. I can’t see any way I can make $ out of this but I thought, just in case, might as well get a good keyword.
June 13, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I got facebook.com/casualsex. Now if I could only monetize it
.
June 13, 2009 at 8:51 pm
now thats a way to impress the laides!
June 14, 2009 at 10:07 am
We expected to see something at there … but there is nothing
June 13, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I got http://www.facebook.com/HOWannoyingIsShoemoneysPopoverEVERYTimeISeeHisPage-IMeanGiveUsYourPaypalAndAskForDonationsIfYouCantPayYourRent
I think it’s quite classy
Seriously. Want to advertise your classes put a banner ad at the top not a pop up from the 90’s
I know the economy is bad, but did you knock up your wife again and need college money or something? Jeesh!
Love ya
June 13, 2009 at 8:52 pm
luv u2-
the popup uses cookies to make sure people dont see it more then 1 time EVER. So make sure your cookies are working. BTW akismet flags you as spam… spammer =P
June 14, 2009 at 7:47 am
yeah , I’m seeing it also more than once …
and i hate it !
June 13, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I really wanted aaron but some facebook employee already had it…so instead:
im.awesome
June 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I got http://www.facebook.com/kdelarue, which matches the handle I use in other places. (Including the URL http://kdelarue.com/.) The benefit of having a Scottish first name and a French surname…
June 13, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I decided to go for the same name as my blog.
http://www.facebook.com/TerryKrysakArtworks
June 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I just got http://www.facebook.com/greg.ellison. I am happy with that because it is my personal account. My mom got her first name so that was pretty cool. Greg Ellison
June 13, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Naturally, I got http://www.facebook.com/lacarmina
Ever since I launched my Japanese fashion blog – http://www.LaCarmina.com – I’ve nabbed my name (lacarmina) for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I think it’s really important to do so.
June 14, 2009 at 10:09 am
Certainly yes … that’s the magic of Web 2.0
June 13, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Just my regular username which the page still needs to be worked on. http://www.facebook.com/soggydave
Also got some great names for my existing niche pages on facebook that are fairly busy.
June 13, 2009 at 6:39 pm
It was tough I kept going back and forth from my company tag name “@drivenmg” or mine. went with facebook.com/nathan.driver
June 13, 2009 at 6:36 pm
http://www.Facebook.com/WebDesignServices
June 13, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I rolled with firstlast http://www.facebook.com/mikechiasson . I’m so original its not even funny!
June 13, 2009 at 6:17 pm
companies *
June 13, 2009 at 6:15 pm
it seems they blocked all countries names , famous words , big compagnies , etc … had to go with my name
June 13, 2009 at 6:10 pm
facebook.com/digitalpoint
June 14, 2009 at 10:11 am
Risky take … I am afraid they can banned your account if Shawn will demand this name … lollzz
June 14, 2009 at 8:35 pm
its a fake account I created to test facebook apps so no worries
June 20, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I think you should not do such things. You are responsible person and such kind of fake accounts create burden on server only.
June 13, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Nothing fancy here either. /sukosaki & /affiliateobsession
June 13, 2009 at 6:06 pm
just got my last name, er, http://facebook.com/varyvoda
June 13, 2009 at 6:02 pm
http://facebook.com/affiliatemarketeer
June 13, 2009 at 6:02 pm
http://www.facebook/jonkelly
June 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm
ha ha I copied Joe’s broken link.
The real one:
http://www.facebook.com/jonkelly
June 13, 2009 at 5:59 pm
http://www.facebook/joehall
June 13, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Oops that link is broken!
http://www.facebook.com/joehall
June 13, 2009 at 5:57 pm
turns out an FB employee snagged mine – probably a few months ago.
Just duplicated the twitter and myspace handles for uniforimity. Its all at /rethansmith
June 13, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I got just what I needed as I own a vacation rental company here at the Lake of the Ozarks in missouri and I got lakeoftheozarks. I’m a happy guy:)
June 13, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Nothing fancy, just got my personal ones. Should have went after some good generic keywords. Oh well!
June 13, 2009 at 9:49 pm
http://www.facebook.com/L2Lumpy