Comments on: How one man beat the Facebook vanity clock

Joseph Kitchens decided to see if he could beat the Facebook vanity countdown clock. He succeeded beyond his wildest imaginings. Although the CTO of Plaxo, who also happens to be called Joseph, is one of many miffed Josephs.

[Jack K1]

So in all of Europe, nobody tried to register Joseph?

[aka_tripleB]

Most people in Europe were probably asleep when you could begin registering. It wasn't a rolling roll-out; it happened at 12:00 am EST (5:00 am GMT) for everyone at the same time.

[kingsnoofer]

Am I alone in thinking how lame this is? This appears to be a story about a lonely man who's life worth seems to rest on his ability to secure the facebook username "Joseph". So he sniped the name, as did probably thousands of other users for their own names. um...Congratulations?

[Zer0Wolf]

Yeah. I don't know how this is going to change his life in any way for the better! But with nearly every tech website there going ga-ga over Twitter and Facebook, you never know. <sigh>
The only worthwhile part of this article was of how the reg page got overwritten.

[assman]

Incredibly lame. He refreshed a page.. wow.. he sure is clever.

[DeeBAG]

Please immediately find a dictionary and look up sarcasm, hyperbole, and moron.

[kingsnoofer]

lol backatcha DeeBAG. Some of the funniest things people say happen when they are beaking about how someone else is a moron, while showing it in their own post. Thank you. You made my day lol.

[professionaladventurer]

Great story, well written.

[aka_tripleB]

Who just wants a first name? Some might shun him for denying his heritage and shaming his family name.

[assman]

I'm usually in defense of CNET articles.. but this has to the be lamest post I've read in a good number of weeks..

[JunkSiu]

I am ok with this article, sometimes things are just that simple.

And @kingsnoofer, I just don't see how this make 'Joseph' lonely or other description in the 2 following replies. He did a very simple thing - set the alarm in his cell phone.

[bourgtai]

I went a different route for my vanity URL. And oh, how vain it is. /profileid.1

[georgisvetoslavov]

did the same few times between minute 2 and 15s to the end, cause didnt want my browser to get blocked or something similar, but nothing like that happen to me.
well, in the end could register in less than 2 seconds /georgi
for me it was the forth option too

[timcoyote]

A really sad excuse for a front page story. I wish you guys would drop back and look at some CNET stories back in 1999 and judge the quality of the content against what you are doing now.

[tel_5422]

Wow, and I was chatting to him at the time, Wish he had told me about it!!