Facebook Revokes Vanity URL & Gives It Back

Harmon Bajwa woke up one morning to find a message from Facebook stating that his URL had been revoked on allegations of a policy violation.

The revocation came after a message from Bajwa International stating that the company had filed a complaint with Facebook and that they were willing to buy the URL from him. Apparently, even though Facebook holds the right to revoke any custom username, Mr. Bajwa was apparently not breaching any of Facebook’s policies.

Facebook has since apologized for the “overzealous” steps stating that the revocation was done purely on trademark protection grounds and not monetary ones.

Facebook Vanity URL = Domainer

Mashable is reporting that 500,000 usernames were registered in 15 mins. Well I happened to be watching the clock tick down, and acquired the keyword “domainer”. Feel free to get in contact.

To be honest, I really didn’t think this would be as big as it was. Within minutes I had people sending me friend invites…. some were people I’d known on forums and others were fellow bloggers.

I’d be interested to know your views on this. Did you register a name? Are you even on facebook?