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Posted by chris
on 11/4/2009, 7:15 pm, in reply to "Re: This happened to me"
Message modified by user chris 11/5/2009, 7:17 pm
Hey Ben!
Yeah, I found that and I totally agree with you. If anything, I figure I can publish my story on a (private) URL and try to alert people to this fact, and maybe artists will begin to migrate away from MySpace once they realize they can lose the very URL they're building their presence around. (The exodus seems to have begun but there's no "easy" and centralized alternative yet.) Maybe a public backlash will cause these companies to change their policy and only allow user name or URL reassignment if there's a legitimate trademark claim over the name.
I've got http://www.singvolumes.com, but unfortunately anything succinct that I could use for such a simple name like Volumes is taken and that's why having the simple myspace.com/volumes was so nice. I also, unfortunately, share a name with an old-school internet geek so I missed out on chrismaher.com (which was registered back in May 1999, shortly after the time period when I first started thinking about registering a domain name). I've learned my lesson and now try to snap up any new site or service where you can choose your own username. I missed some things, like Gmail (grrr!! damn invite roll out!) and Skype, but I've got many of the others like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, etc.
If anything, this is a good lesson/wake-up call and that's part of the reason I wanted to publicize the fact that this happened, to make everyone else aware that it CAN happen.
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