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The Facebook Vanity URL Fiasco
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Published: Jun 11, 2009 - 06:18 am
Story Found By: jonhenshaw 975 Days ago
Category: SEM
Geeks all around the world will frantically login to Facebook with the attempt to land as many great vanity URLs as they can. Unsuspecting businesses around the world will think they have nothing to fear. Or do they?
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from dcoates 974 Days ago #
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There are, unfortunately, a number of things wrong with this that could have been cleared up by reading the Facebook announcement:-No, SAS can’t be registered by someone. It has to be at least five characters. Gets in the way of most "initial" arguments.-The "Registration Number" is the one for your trademark. It’s on file with the government. (See this was addressed in the comments.)-You can register a vanity URL for a page Friday night. It says that right in the announcement.It’s going to be a cluster*** come Friday, but not for the reasons stated here.

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from pratt 974 Days ago #
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That’s a good catch with the SAS part. Someone else pointed out the registration number so I’ll see if I can get the post updated.With regard to your last point, however, not all pages are eligable for a vanity URL. It says that right in the announcement.

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from dcoates 974 Days ago #
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Pratt,I did a bit more digging, and we’re both a little right about the Pages. You can register Friday night, but you were right about the 1,000 minimum: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=91106469821&ref=blog.

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from pratt 974 Days ago #
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Yeah that’s what I meant, my apologies for not making that clearer as it is a very important point. You are right though, this is definitely going to be one giant cluster ****

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from bonniegibbons 974 Days ago #
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Hilarious, given that I just finished Anil Dash’s hilarious prediction of the coming "facebook debacle."

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