Facebook Vanity URLs
// June 12th, 2009 // Internet
If you’re up right now, don’t forget to take advantage of the opening of Facebook Vanity URLs which changes the address of your profile from something like this:
facebook.com/9581189
to this:
facebook.com/your.name
Not sure what to pick? Standard domain name rules apply. Pick something easy to remember, easy to spell and as short as possible. I tried for /guin but it turns out the username has to be at least five characters, so I managed to snag facebook.com/guinevere.
If you want your own vanity URL at Facebook, click here to get one now.




Mashable is reporting that over 1/2 million Facebook usernames were registered in the first 15 minutes:
http://mashable.com/2009/06/12/facebook-team-celebrates-username-launch/
[...] first round of Facebook vanity URLs proved to be a huge success. Within minutes of the feature being made available, Mashable reported [...]