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If you arrived on this page then you must be looking for a way to get those sweet looking facebook page urls. I assume you already know how to get kool Vanity urls for your profile.

If you want a flat url or Vanity url for your profile. Simply go to Home > Account Setting > Edit Username. Thats all.

For those of you who need to have a kool looking URL for FB Pages

We all get pages made for our business, blog, dog’s page, girl fiend’s dog’s photo page or whatever stuff we do on the pages we have. But some people like to promote those pages for a profit or just to gain some public appreciation. One of my employees who is a link builder – he gets one Facebook Page like request (you like my page I like your page kind of crap) every 5 minutes when he is signed in.

Whatever way you follow to promote your facebook page, a simple url always helps. No I wont blabber any more – here follow this screen shots and you will have your Facebook Page Vanity URL ready. If you like this do give me a like of share this post. cheers and good luck with your shameless promotions.

Now here is how my Company page looks like

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nth-Dimension/202688226455391

I want a better one. like http://www.facebook.com/Nth-Dimension

So I go to this link while I am signed in on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/username/

Choose which page you want to get a Vanity URL for.

You can see I already have my Profile URL set. If you havn’t yet you can do it here too.

You can now provide what url you want. Choose something sweet and small.

Once you have picked your desired URL check its availability. You can see some rascal already took my desired URL. So I have to improvise and yet stick to my desired url. So I picked Nth.Dimension.India

Now my facebook page has the url http://www.facebook.com/Nth.Dimension.India makes sense? Well my domain is nthdimension.in so I added India.

Rules to follow

• You can use only alpha-numeric characters and ‘.’ period.
• You cannot change your facebook page username again.
• you cannot transfer it to another facebook account.
• if you do not own the right to the user name it will be confiscated by the rightful owner.
• if you sell the page to another company and it tracked by facebook it will be reclaimed.
• only admins of the pages can create the vanity URL. It need not be the owner. A facebook page can have multiple admins.

Is any one looking for a bullshit/horseshit domain hosting service? Consider Yahoo domain or smallbusiness.yahoo.com.

While listing the 5 reasons why you should not be using Yahoo Small Business I am highlighting some of their shitty business logic as well.

1. Total Confusion: My invoice is raised. I process the payment. The registration for a particular domain is renewed for two years. For some god damned reason the invoice payment fails. I am a Yahoo user with the domain registered with yahoo mail id but yahoo prefers to send the notifications to the alternate email id. Wow.

2. Failed Technology: They cancel my account. My domain keeps working even though the payment fails.  Their mails go to an account that I am not checking. I plan to change my hosting and when I look around where is the domain I don’t find it any more. I look up WHOIS and find my account registered with melbourneIT. What the hell is going on and who are these people. I look up the domain on their site and the say “could be a reseller”. I call them and I am shocked to find that Yahoo is their reseller. At least they are pretty smart and professional people and help me out with even Yahoo customer care number for domains.

3. Shitty Customer Care: I call up Yahoo and their shitty system says I have to wait for 20 mins. Imagine calling on ISD and being asked to hold for 20 mins. 3-4 calls like this and my one year Domain registration fee is wasted on customer care.  (Thanks to the IP phones we have got here) Finally after getting the account validated after two calls (20 – 24 mins of hold each) I pay and get the account reactivated.

4. Shitty Commitment: My initial requirement was to rename the name servers. After validation they put my domain on pending status saying it might take upto 72 hours for the DNS change. After 4 complete days I am still waiting for the pending status to lift. I don’t know how many days more I will have to wait after I change the NS to my desired location.

5: Shitty Pricing: First year they charge $10 for .com domains. Next year you are supposed to pay $35. Can any one tell me why? I can dare to call myself a techie and I am pissed up with this shit. I wonder what common have to face. Other top domain registration companies like GoDaddy etc charge around the $10 for every renewal.

This review is a totally personal opinion of mine. It is not motivated by any individual or company. I just wish to share my bad experience with the aforementioned company. I know many of you might disagree with me. Feel free to comment.