Stephan Nedregaard

Yahoo! usernames

Monday, December 19, 2005 5:24:55 PM

So I go to Yahoo to check out if they're up to something cool, and decide to try and create an account over there to test if they've changed that somehow. I then tried to actually come up with a usable username. After giving up (as all are taken, it seems, and I refuse to be stephan5868), I started getting silly.

These usernames ALL are registered with Yahoo!:

doggod, goddog, kingofdogs, killme, mekill, killyou, randomnick, nickrandom, ihateyahoo, anyusernameplease, justgetone, thissucks, howdifficultcanthisbe, yesnomaybe, maybenotyes, iamstupid, ineedsugar, usernamenow, oldusername, newusername, sandwich, coldsandwich, evilsandwich, foohoo, hoofoo, footoo, ftak, gurgle, catchasingdog... swimmingegg

It's getting crowded :)HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

Comments

FataL # Monday, December 19, 2005 7:36:24 PM

It drew me crazy before. Then I just gave up.
It's obvious to me that all these silly usernames are not taken at all. Maybe Yahoo tries to protect users and itself from brute force spamming.
Just a thought... But that "feature" is not good for newcoming potential users anyway. I don't want to be Joe3753 - I'm not a robot, I want to be at least CrazyMazyJoe!