Comments on: And You Thought Domain Rules Were Unfair, FaceBook Just Takes Them Back Upon Complaint

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:40:27 +0000

FB Terms and Conditions violate people’s rights. They act as though they are gods and will do anything to your account without allowing the user any rights to defend. Anything that brings money to them, they will unethically enforce their terms and conditions. I think their application of their terms and conditions are unethical and unlawful. I wouldn’t use facebook to promote any business as their stuck up P$@%KS.

By: Expired Domains

Expired Domains — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:42:38 +0000

I agree with John

By: agnosticnixie

agnosticnixie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:01:36 +0000

Wait what? This doesn’t even make sense, if a person has been using the same handle for a decade how is this “hiding” – I know some people whose online handles are well known enough that people online will figure who the person is on seeing their handle, and if I want anonimity I know not to use the handle I used to sign here.

By: ShoesOrPizza

ShoesOrPizza — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:22:07 +0000

Facebook is different from other sites like MySpace. That’s why they are number one! They want online identities that people can’t hide behind. My understanding is they don’t allow usernames like “shoes” or “pizza” either.

I want to stick up for Facebook. They are running a great website.

By: Tim Dean

Tim Dean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:12:08 +0000

I as well suffered this fate, I have gone by and used the nickname ptbarnum for at least 10 years, and 2 days ago when I logged into facebook, I found that they had reassigned it and I was forced to chose a new username. It doesn’t matter that I have the same username on twitter, on myspace and have used the name as the basis for my online identity.

Facebook, I really did not anticipate this, but since its here welcome to social networking 2.0 and all the press it can bring, good or bad!

By: Krista

Krista — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:44:13 +0000

decisions like this make me wanna puke… FB should give the the guy an opportunity to present his side for fairness sake..

By: NameIssue.com

NameIssue.com — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:15:37 +0000

Agree with Stephen Douglas_Successclick.com. This is the best comment here. It costs less than $10 an year to maintain a domain name and you don’t even need to buy hosting service. Just redirect your domain to the page at the social network or blogging platform.

By: Stephen Douglas_Successclick.com

Stephen Douglas_Successclick.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:23:01 +0000

With all due respect to David Lloyd, and no props to Facebook, did everyone miss the obvious on this article and the problem in the first place?

David admits to using “squaresheep” for a decade. That’s a long time to promote your personal/company name without BUYING THE DOMAIN NAME. What would have been the outcome in this issue if David had thought to go buy the domain name, since he used it so much? What would FB have done if some company with some bastardized version of “squaresheep.com” tried to hijack his FB name?

“Hi, we’re Square-Sheep-Inc.” and we want the FB profile name “squaresheep.”

FB would say, “Well, we have a guy here who owns the domain “squaresheep.com” and is using the profile name already. Sorry.”

Or am I wrong on this?

If I’m not wrong, this is an excellent lesson for ALL businesses to own their domain names at every level, especially at the .com versions.

By: BullS

BullS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:17:01 +0000

As I said many many times, do not trust all these social sites, all they care is CONTROL.

facebook aka faces-hit

Still see many stupid stupid people using blogspot or those free hosting to post their content…ha ha ha…

By: JS

JS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:08:50 +0000

Who thought they “owned” anything on facebook anyway ?