Aug 04 2009
Did Facebook look before it leaped with its Usernames program?
Since Facebook launched its Facebook Usernames initiative in mid-June, over 6 million unique individuals have registered usernames for their personal profiles, and over 15,000 usernames have been registered for Facebook Pages as well, which are commonly used by businesses and other organizations. In many ways, the program looks like a proprietary domain name registration system. However, when we read that Facebook is claiming ownership over every username, an assertion attributed to a company spokesman, we realized that Facebook is not acting like a domain name registrar. We also wondered about the legal basis of such a claim.
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