yeah .com/sid is taken by an employee - Sid Burgess

Mine is gone too. http://friendfeed.com/atmostr... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

so where do you go to get them or are they not out yet? - Sid Burgess

yep evil of them to wait till the last minute - BCK

sid: facebook.com/username opens to everyone at 12:01 eastern - BCK

ok, that's what I was thinking, but seeing that some were gone I wasn't sure. - Sid Burgess

So these are all from employees? wow... - Sid Burgess

This is why I like tehKenny, it's my name and nobody fucking touches it (or they die). - teh Dork Knight

well according to TC some could be journalists http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - BCK

BCK I was offered one, but they're only allowing journalists their first and last names - Jesse Stay

i wonder how you get on the journalist list - i am not on the list apparently and others who tell us all the time they are bloggers and not journalists appear to be - Allen Stern

Allen I know who you should contact but he told me not to tell anyone. He got mad at me when I sent Louis to him. - Jesse Stay

so is there a screenshot of what the name claim page looks like anywhere. Any tips on how to enter it as quickly as you can at 9:01PST? I was thinking maybe to cut and paste thomashawk so that I could just ctl V it into any form as fast as possible. Any ideas what the form to claim names looks like? - Thomas Hawk

Louis should get one before you Jesse, we all know that.... ;-) - Sid Burgess

do they allow dots in names. like if someone beats me to thomashawk can I try to get thomas.hawk? - Thomas Hawk

I was going to write a script to do it in milla-seconds Thomas - Sid Burgess

any tips on how to do it faster? anyone seen the web form for the name claim thing yet? - Thomas Hawk

is there a way to run an app that will check for /"pages" on the facebook domain? Would be neat to see who got one first... - Sid Burgess

i am selling a facebook claim kit on ebay - has all the steps on how to get your name in under 13 seconds - you can purchase it direct for $19.95 and if you act before 11pm Eastern, I will throw in a free Twitter bonus account and complimentary cupcake - Allen Stern

Sid, Louis can't have Jesse either because it's already taken - Jesse Stay

Could be very contraversial... :D - Sid Burgess

btw i posted a link of 25 names already gone plus a link to Amit's facebook checker - http://www.centernetworks.com/faceboo... and http://digitalinspiration.com/tools... - Allen Stern

I am confused.... or are you just being funny? - Sid Burgess

How do you know that some of these names are already taken? - Rochelle

ok, so if you don't have a vanity page yet for yourself, can you point your vanity url to it later or is this it? - Sid Burgess

Best way to tell is just go to http://facebook.com/username - Amit's tool isn't catching all them - Jesse Stay

so does this mean I'm really going to have to stay sober until 9pm tonight in order to claim my damn name? - Thomas Hawk

thomas - give me your facebook userid/pwd and $20 and I will do it for you at 9pm LOL - Allen Stern

My first name is already taken by a Facebook employee, but I've still got a shot at my full name. Which is more consistent with my other social network usernames any way. - Aaron Hood

I'm in CT, I'm old, I'm tired, and I don't get it: if you type your magic name into Amit's search and no page result comes up, does that mean the name is available? - Amy℠

allen, if you can do that for me I'd really appreciate it. My Facebook pw is robertscoble. appreciate anything you can do for me. - Thomas Hawk

amit's page isn't working. Better to just try it out on facebook itself to see if it's take or not: http://facebook.com/username - Thomas Hawk

The page you requested was not found. <-- I assume this means it's still available. - Rochelle

yes, I'm assuming that's what it means. - Thomas Hawk

thomas is already taken, but thomashawk still is available best I can tell. - Thomas Hawk

OK, I signed up for mine -- gibster -- but now I see that the employee Sid was able to get a vanity URL that doesn't follow the 5 character minimum username. I didn't even try for my first name because it didn't match the rules and all the suggestions FaceBook generated were longer - Gib