If you’ve managed to make it past your 2nd grade P.E. class you’ve learned that there are some people who just don’t like to play by the rules. There was the kid who didn’t go “out” in dodgeball when the coach wasn’t looking, the one who didn’t study for the test and read off of yours instead and the one who stepped to the front of every lunch line.
While things change and people grow up, there are always a few people who manage to hold on to this mindset as they step into their professional lives. The rules are irrelevant to them and the rest of us get left in the dust. Social Media has been riddled with spammers and even legit companies trying to get ahead by circumventing the rules of the platform.
"Don't cheat" by quinn.anya on Flickr
LunaWeb has fallen victim to one of these social delinquients as of late in the flurry of excitement surrounding Facebook’s new vanity URLs.
When the URLs were first released they were only available to individuals and Public Profiles with more than 1000 fans. While we weren’t huge fans at being left out of the loop (we don’t have 1000 fans but we’d love it if you were one) we bade our time until Facebook allowed the smaller pages to start claiming URLs.
This past Sunday night we logged in at the appointed time to claim our vanity URL at long last, only to discover it had been done several days before by an individual profile from a person suspiciously named LunaWeb Agence. Apparently a French company of the same name created a fake profile for the purpose of snagging the URL before anyone else did.
You can bet we’ll be taking this issue up with Facebook and we’ll keep you posted on what happens. Until then… play fair.
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I did a look up as I am sure you did but they havent even been in existance as long as you have. Werent yall around in the days of Grinz.com being in the incubator? I was working with them back in 1999-ish era as well as a few more times in the 2000s. anyway I found this:
It was founded in 2004
domain: lunaweb.fr
status: ACTIVE
hold: NO
holder-c: L3162-FRNIC
admin-c: NLC2-FRNIC
tech-c: TH3443-FRNIC
zone-c: NFC1-FRNIC
nsl-id: NSL13577-FRNIC
registrar: KINEMEDIA
anniversary: 16/08
created: 28/07/2004
last-update: 06/03/2009
source: FRNIC
thought maybe that might help your case with FB.
Allen – Thanks for the great info to add to the argument. I remember Grinz Interactive, Lick The Toad and such from yester-decade.
No word yet from the Facebook gods, but we’re hopeful. – Dave