Do you "own" your username?

[Zildjin81]

When you Google "Haxordude" you (amazingly) get my Escapist profile as the first result.

 

[Jibblejab]

I am the only Jibblejab!!! except for the ponce who nicked my name on youtube and xbox live

But its pretty much just me who is both jibbley and jabbley

 

[brutus3933]

13 results for mine and two of them don't refer to me, although some of them are a bit indirect. So yeah, I think I own my name.

 

[coldfrog]

My username is often involved in other things... Cold Frog could just be a picture of a blue frog or a heating and air conditioning company. However, I like it for what it is: An amusing cryptography anecdote.

A couple of googles results are me.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

The only result on google (and I looked at ALL OF THEM!) that had "ElArabDeMagnifico" that was NOT me was on some interracial porn forum. Everything else is me.

Of all the impostors though it just HAD to be that huh?

 

[YoUnG205]

When you google Furburt I think you just get me.

Yeah it seems to be mostly me.

This is interesting however, according to Urban Dictionary, a Furbert is 'A person, usually a man, that is erotically involved or fixated on teddy bears. This is considered to be a fetish.'

Hmm. Learn something new every day.

Lol I googled Furburt, and urban dictionary said it was wen some one has a fetish for teddy bears

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Well...no...Sightless Wisdom is an Arsis song, so you get a lot of Arsis results. However! Anything that doesn't have to do with them has to do with me, so I suppose yes...sort of.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I only found 2 other imposters in the first 5 pages so I think it is safe to say I own my user name.

 

[darmey]

For some reason I didn't use it for signing up here but my usual username is entirely me. I made it up at age 11 or 12 because I kept getting annoyed that whenever I signed up for something, the names I thought of were always taken.

Sometimes people ask me what it means and I've got into a habit of making up a different story every time.

 

[ninjajoeman]

wow everything is mine basically...=]

 

[dragonburner]

Me and lizard related smelling candels...

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

No, I bet a lot of people has the same user name as me.

But only mine has MEANING!

 

[Xbowhyena]

My Username was originally DeathWatchh but then after Mad World came out it sort of nagged at me. I've kept with this one though on newer accounts/emails I'm InterestingFlavour. Not sure if I own either, really.

 

[Cabamacadaf]

I am the only one who uses my username for anything.

 

[SantoUno]

Results 1 - 10 of about 34,500 for SantoUno. (0.38 seconds)

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

*readies shotgun* There can only be one...

 

[Chunko]

For those of you who usually use the same username on different sites, what happens when you Google it? Have you reached the point where the majority of results are from you registering it, not some "impostor"?

And for those of you who're buried in obscurity, do you wish you'd been as smart as Randall Munroe and picked something as unique as "xkcd" when you made up your name at age 12?

As for me, I was surprised to find myself occupying 50% of the top 10. But I do wish it was more unique, cause dudes keep beating me to it on registrations.

XKCD = 42 = the meaning of life

 

[ejb626]

On the front page yes I also found a Wii forum where someone registered under the same name and a bunch of posts from a place called WarCry where I never registered

Weird considering its my initials and birthdate and seemingly random letters and numbers to anyone else

 

[Captain Schpack]

the whole first page and probably the second one too is all me baby.

 

[Kafloobop]

Mine is mine and no one else's.