Do you "own" your username?

[Muffinthraka]

When you type in my name you only get me, although sometimes I'm on sites I've never heard cos people link videos and stuff. Yahoo gave me this username; it asked for some key words then randomly combined them, Muffin is the name of my families dog and Thraka is part of the name of a 40K character. I have 1960 results on google.

 

[jboking]

I have honestly never found anyone else using my username. This is free information for anyone that wants to troll me anywhere on the internet. My username is always jboking.

 

[Triskadancer]

I hadn't googled my name before this thread, but when I did, all the results were me. So, yeah, I do, I suppose.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I pretty much dominate the top ten, and more, when you search me.

 

[hippykiller]

im the one, the only HIPPYKILLER!!!

 

[MystikMtnManaT]

All 293 results on Google are me. I mean seriously who else would come up with this?

 

[Xanadu84]

went through 10, and they were all me. Actually, 9 were things related to The Escapist, and 1 was from the Steam forums.

 

[KiruTheMant]

Kiru is less rare than I thought.
My original posts on an Old forum show up,But Kirus some German/Japanese term.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Yeah, I got about 5,600 results. From the first 3 pages I can safely say that all of those are about me.

 

[Tiroe]

Two of them direct to me, but it seems that Tiroe is a city in the US, the name of a person that lives in Minnesota and the last name of some journalist.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I own mine, all of the top results are me. Some of them at sites I completely forgot about.

 

[ButanicXpandA]

I typed in butanic panda on google and got a friend of mine's myspace with me in it.
So yes my username is very unique.

 

[TK421]

Uh... mine is kind of famous for reasons other than myself.

 

[Jimmis]

Yes there is not a single other "Jimmis" on the internets.

 

[tjcross]

Although I made this name up a few years ago, there seems to be a few companies under the name. And a few other search results for it, but the majority is my stuff mostly on escapist-related websites like warcry and ultimate anime (which I hadn't heard of).

same here

 

[ffxfriek]

Its all mine

 

[L24z13L]

I have yet to come across a website where someone else has taken my name. So yes, I pretty much own my username.

 

[razer17]

If you search Razer_17 it's all related to me, on the first page of google. Search Razer17 and you get a lot of stuff about the company and screens and stuff.

 

[General Vagueness]

I came up with General Vagueness when I was 14 or 15, after I had been on the Internet a few times but before I really had a handle on it as we'd never had it in my house for long. Fortunately we eventually got cable-based (high-speed) Internet and I've used it for pretty much everything since then. There's some Facebook group with the phrase "General Vagueness" in it and of course articles on generality and vagueness come up; other than that it seems to be just me every time I check (which is 4 or 5 times in the last 3 years). My profile here is at the top which is weird because I have more posts than this on another forum centered on old hardware and software and way more posts on a Halo forum. I have two more usernames/nicknames/handles/whatever in the back of my mind in case I want to do something and not have it be associated with me, at least not right away.

 

[lord canti]

holy crap both of my usual usernames takes up the almost the entire first page.