Now’s the time to get your vanity URL at Facebook!

The race is on! If you want to claim your own name on Facebook.com, you better hurry.

What I mean is this: Up to now, the URL for your Facebook profile was something like this:
www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/728843290 (that’s not a real link, btw)

But wouldn’t it be a lot cooler to own www.facebook.com/yourname?

And of course it’s even more important to own your own URL for Facebook pages! Can you imagine how much of a bummer it’d be to find that your name has already been taken?

It’s first come, first serve. And there’s a couple of hundred million people all trying to grab their name at the same time! So go do it now.

Log in to Facebook, and then go to  this link

You will see a form that will give you several suggested usernames, and the ability to choose your own. Either choose one of the names suggested or type in your own.

Repeat this process for any Facebook Fan Pages you administer, though there are three catches: first, your page must have over 1000 fans prior to May 31st 2009, you can’t claim something generic like travel or insurance, and you can’t claim someone else’s trademark.

If you have a registered trademark, you’d better go to this link right now to prevent squatters pitching camp at your name!

(PS: If your name is already taken, try your.name, your.m.name (middle initial), or yourname1, etc.)