Millions Grab Their Facebook Name

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - On Saturday Facebook started to allow users to select vanity URLs, usually some combination of the users first and last name. Even with 200 million users worldwide, the "land rush" didn't turn out to be much of an event as there were no reports of servers crashes. Plenty of people, though, were not able to get the name they wanted.

Bloomberg reported that more than 3 million people registered user names in the first 12 hours after the social networking site offered members the chance to claim a personalized Internet address.

One Facebook user did score an odd user name: Ahmadinejad. Devon Fisher, of New Jersey, selected the URL: http://www.facebook.com/Ahmadinejad. He picked the name "for attention" and claims he does not support Ahmadinejad saying, "I'm a bored rich kid from the suburbs."

Wired reported that a few other vanity URLs were scooped up by Facebook users. Heaven and hell were not taken, but someone staked claim to Hades. And recently past comedian Bea Arthur was taken. GeorgeBush does not appear to be President 41 or 43, but rather someone named Dusty.

Facebook says that it has taken steps to prevent cybersquatting, according to USAToday, as tens of thousands of names have been restricted.

It also appears that the so-called " Twitpocalypse" that was buzzing on the blogosphere Friday afternoon, turned out to be a non-event.