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Why the Facebook nickname landrush is irrelevant

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by Mike on 6/15/2009

in Perpetual Beta : Release,The Intarweb

When Facebook let users pick nicknames for human-friendly URL’s, Wired Magazine’s John Abell didn’t care what name he got. Why? He’s already a got a domain name that he controls… along with unlimited subdomains that he can point to any other location on the internet. At the end of the day, you won’t know where [...]