Now cyber squatting is infiltrating social sites. What next. - CJPhoto

People who do this should be banned from the social networking sites they do this on. - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

hmmm... it took me 6 months to get my name on twitter. I wonder how responsive identi.ca can be?! - Shivanand Velmurugan

Maybe they were reserving it for you, Robert. :-p - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

be careful, they might have a goatee and be the "evil mirror universe" scoble. - Andrew Feinberg

@Brandon hmmm... they haven't done it for DNS, I doubt if they would for scoial networks. solution: openid! - Shivanand Velmurugan

I grabbed kregger, but ugh what is the point of identi.ca beyond a twitter clone? - Craig Eddy

eg. there is someone on friendfeed called shiva, and I'm shiva too. Who is more authentic?! Mebbe the system should reward one who is more active?! I say that coz I'm usually the more active "shiva" is web2.0 :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Shiva...maybe we all need GUIDs? - Craig Eddy

++ for GUIDs! That would be extra dorky - "You can find me all over the net as 76280920-48a2-11dd-ae16-0800200c9a66!!" - Chrimmus Tad

Craig: isn't that akin to openid?! essentially they maintain a guid (it is just in the form of a url). - Shivanand Velmurugan

This is PLURK crap all over again...LAME-O... where's data portability and OpenID protections? we use GUIDs for apps at my office (website apps), but using for people sounds cool, but it's too easy to replicate if you have a copy. But if secure, forget it...awesome ID protection - Susan Beebe

Just thinking aloud here, but... is http://ca.ca taken? - l0ckergn0me

nice one Chris!! heheehe! - Susan Beebe

It sucks to be so popular with the trolls, eh? - Steven E. Streight

you clearly need to be faster registering at these new sites! - headsling

l0ckergn0me, that reminds me of a few years ago when I discovered you CAN'T register http://org.ca , it is apparently on a list of restricted domain names - that's the response from a whois query, anyway. - Micah Wittman from twhirl

I found this kinda funny.... It's commented out, but still. From the Laconica config sample: #$config['nickname']['blacklist'][] = 'scobleizer'; http://is.gd/KYT - donato from twhirl

Jim Norris on FriendFeed: - scorpio from Alert Thingy

what do you mean "your" account? any trademarks on the word "scobleizer"? - Gowri from twhirl

I'm not sure "like" was right here, I wanted to vote "sad", or "pathetic", or "yet another let's claim popular domains scam", but FF doesn't provide me those options. I say we spam the hell out of such people ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

@Donato yes... indeed very funny - Gustavo Munoz from twhirl

yes, Robert has a trademark on the term "Scobleizer" so folks cannot squat it legally...they just do it to annoy the poor man! - Susan Beebe

Robert, it seem people are trying to get some new service before u and register ur handle....its seem they are try to make mischief!!! - Arjun

Robert: It's open, just start your own. You have a big enough following to triumph identi.ca. It could be scobleize.us :) - Justin Korn

Happened to me with Pownce. That's the problem with signing up for a new account that's not somehow tied to YOU or your identity. - l0ckergn0me

No one had registered spuds so I have it. Yipee! Good luck with getting scobleizer back - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

It's getting ridiculous, isn't it. Perhaps a name and shame website would be a good idea - to report the idiots who do it. - Jonathan Beckett

go early web2.0 with scobleizr - George Lee from twhirl

So its a weak twitter clone in, if I get this right, PHP. Honestly Robert, with these things springing up all over it's simply not goign to be possible for you to get to them all first. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

If I was launching something like this, I'd reserve Scoble's account when I started it, just so he could moan about it in public - free publicity! :) - Martin Bryant

I fight it out with a guy in Germany for the username Tobstar until i started using my real name. - Toby Graham

god you are so arrogant Robert. - Rutger Blom

Rutger I m ight be arrogant, but it's my freaking name/trademark and I will defend that. - Robert Scoble

Funny, the owner of identi.ca wrote me back and said he doesn't have a policy for how to handle these things. Amateur hour. - Robert Scoble

Eww...i hate stupid companies who don't know how to handle things and cyber squatters. - Nicholas James

Gee, I think the owner of Identi.ca is clueless then... how can you launch a twitter competitor product and not foresee this issue to crop up?! Doh! lame-O dude - Susan Beebe

Your name = your "brand" = your word and so on. That is not arrogance but brand management. - Mathew A. Koeneker