Do you "own" your username?

[NoriYuki Sato]

i thoguht of mine off of the top of my head for the book that i'm writing, and have used it ever since ((around 6 years now)) and i just found out..Noriyuki Sato is a fanfiction writer whoe wrote 3 stories for Rurouni Kenshin and is credited in 12 video games, however that was Yahoo search. on Google, i proudly take the Number 2 spot and it happens to be for The Escapist.


thank you Google

*EDIT*

apparently, Noriyuki Sato also played as a chaser for the Japanese Quidditch team in Harry Potter....

DAMMIT!!!!

*EDIT*

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Nothing relating to me on the first page. Then again, google took "Zeros" as the plural of "zero". But I think I'm safe. How likely is it that someone else will use the name of one of my DnD characters?

 

[Bebosis]

Its pretty much all me. Except for the site Bebo. and the occasional 'Bebo Sis' Whatever the hell that is. Usually whenever it says that though its followed by a whole bunch of words in different languages. I didnt come up with the username either. My friend's brother gave me a account on a game with the name and it just stuck to me considering he doesnt even get on the internet anymore i just adopted the username as my own.

By the by where as Bebo is pronounced Bee-Bo my name is pronounced Beh-Boh-Sis so its different. Mmmhmm huzzah for originality. Even if it isnt even my own.

 

[Soviet Razor]

Except for pages selling Soviet army razors, yeah, pretty much.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

When I googled my name, all that came up were links to a bunch of Porn sites for women who like large penises...

 

[Pegghead]

Well so far as I know I was the first person to come up with the username MONTYZUMA which I used for the original xbox live service and which has since become my most commonly used username. So far as I know only some Meso-american emperor with serious spelling issues and somebody on youtube who enjoys motorcycle riding have used it.

But in terms of Pegghead, I think I'm the one person of this earth to come up with that.

 

[Yokai]

Nope. My username is relatively unique but not particularly imaginative--it's a real word, so you Google it and you get a bunch stuff about Japanese mythology. I really wish I'd picked something different now. Came up with it when I was 12 and realized it was kind of dumb a year or two later.
EDIT: I noticed I do pretty much own my TF2 username, King of Explodia, which is what I would change it to if I could.

 

[Calatar]

Well, originally my name was nearly unique, I had only 2 other references to the name, one I was okay with, the other not so much. First was the name of a character in some fan-fiction somewhere. This I was okay with, as my name was originally just something I came up with off the top of my head for Baldur's Gate. The other was a dating site profile of a mexican guy "looking for men." This, I was less okay with.
Now apparently, somebody has named their horse Calatar, and made a blog about him. It is an interesting turn of events. Apparently there is another person who once was on WoW with my username, still not me. Currently I show up primarily on the Escapist, youtube, and Wizards website. Sadly my DnD DPR calculator doesn't appear until the end of the second page, so it is not yet my claim to fame.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Well I only see my name when I looked up EcksTeaSea so I guess I do own my username.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I wouldn't call it my property, but it's my online alias. Everywhere.

 

[SiliconKnight]

I do not come close to owning mine, and thats by design. An expression of love for the company Silicon Knights of Eternal Darkness fame and Too Human infamy.

 

[Don't taze me bro]

I have different names on different sites. It's a problem when the name you use is already taken. I mainly use 'Kudos' and have for over 16 years. I never really had a problem until Metropolis Street Racer, and then the Project Gotham series started using 'Kudos' for a points scoring system.
It would shit me to tears when someone would ask if I got my name from those racing games.

 

[Timotei]

My name is pretty much an original. I wouldn't say the same for anyone with "Ichigo" in their name.

 

[ChaoticLegion]

Well, considering my name is just two relatively simple words merged into one to create something a little more sinister, it's likely others out that have also used it, however i've never seen anyone else throughout my gaming history with this name so it's all good.

 

[skullpile]

besides a devinart account all mine a lot of shirts though

 

[Dedtoo]

First page of google gave me only my things.

 

[lslines]

The first two pages of google are all me, with the exception of a few which are discussing maths equations. I did meet one other person using this name though, once, and she came up with it the exact way I did. That was scary.

 

[Brickcups]

Just me upon searching =P.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Mt user name is mainly for the Escapist, but since it's a word I get a lot of "the number thirteen" results. My Escapist profile is, however, the 3rd result in Google. So I think I own it.

 

[Lord Krunk]

My only impostor is some 17 year old living in Adelaide.

Which is funny, considering our ages are the same and we're only a state apart.