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		<title>Facebook Vanity URLs: Grab Yours Before Someone Else Steals It</title>
		<link>http://www.techaffect.com/2009/06/12/facebook-vanity-urls-grab-yours-before-someone-else-steals-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Fathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to bring to your attention that Facebook is about to allow ‘vanity’ URLs to be registered beginning at midnight tonight. This means that instead of having a web address that’s an incoherent string of numbers or letters, you can now have a Facebook Profile or Page with a ‘name’. So, instead of having [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.techaffect.com/wp-content/uploads/facebook-logo.jpg" alt="facebook-logo" title="facebook-logo" width="193" height="55" class="alignright size-full wp-image-655" />I wanted to bring to your attention that<a href="http://www.facebook.com"> Facebook</a> is about to allow ‘vanity’ URLs to be registered beginning at midnight tonight. This means that instead of having a web address that’s an incoherent string of numbers or letters, you can now have a Facebook Profile or Page with a ‘name’. So, instead of having an address that looks like this: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=987654321 it could look like this: http://www.facebook.com/affectstrategies. (Groups are not eligible for Facebook username URLs at the moment.)</p>
<p>This means that individuals can register/request the names of the URL that they would like – it also means that they could pick a company name or word that you may have trademarked rights to.<br />
(Article in San Francisco Business Times on this &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/qfxbg">http://bit.ly/qfxbg</a> )</p>
<p>In order to protect your trademarks, you can fill out a form on Facebook right now to prevent someone from taking your trademarked name. So, for example, we registered <a href="http://www.affectstrategies.com">Affect Strategies</a> (company) and <a href="http://www.techaffect.com">Tech Affect </a>(blog). You may want to register your company name, products/services or other trademarked names you own. Here is the short form that you need to fill out. It only takes a few moments:  Facebook Online Form &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/IyaKY">http://bit.ly/IyaKY</a></p>
<p>I highly recommend that you take a few moments to protect your trademarks by filling out this simple form. That way, if you decide in the future to create a presence on Facebook, you will not have to wrestle with the User or Facebook to get it back. </p>
<p>If you would like to register your own user name, you can do so here at midnight &#8211; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/username/ ">http://www.facebook.com/username/ </a><br />
For more information on this topic in general, visit Facebook Username Help &#8211; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help.php?topic=username ">http://www.facebook.com/help.php?topic=username </a></p>
<p>Facebook is currently saying that it will not allow transfers in order prevent &#8216;squatters&#8217; from trying to profit from false claims to a Username but it does reserve the right to revoke or deny a name. </p>
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