Name availability

[DidEinsteinsMum]

If i name change does the old name become available for other people to use?

[GeraldineMumsnet]

The man from the shed, he says yes.

[chablis]

NO! Surely that's not right - when we change for 'festive' names we can always go back to old names??? [look of horror icon]

[savoycabbage]

Ohhhh! So someone could race in and swipe your 'real' name if you are using a comedy or festive one!!! This cannot be!

[DidEinsteinsMum]

i was hoping on a breif change but that has changed it all....

[Flamesparrow]

Methinks the man from the shed needs sacking unless the rules have suddenly changed...

[flowerybeanbag]

Nooooo! I thought all the names I have changed to were officially 'bagsed' by me forever! So when I am flowerytaleofNewYork at Christmas, someone else could become flowerybeanbag?

[Flamesparrow]

It would be mayhem if the rules HAVE changed.

Say I decided to swipe Hunkermunker when she is being Hunkeratesomemouldybread or something, then all posts I make would be stored as the same person who made all her previous ones. I could support nestle and make her old posts completely pointless.

[flowerybeanbag]

Someone could give out duff advice in my name!

[IdrisTheDragon]

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Or is it just that no ones ever wanted one of my cast offs?

[Flamesparrow]

Ooooh

Yes Jemima672, it is perfectly legal to insist that you wear no bra and a very thin blouse to work every second Tuesday. You don't have a leg to stand on and if you complain you will Never Work Again.

This could be fun

[VinegarTits]

this is not right, there can only be one VinegarTits, you cannot allow someone to nick my name if i namechange for a day

Please send my complaint form to the man in the shed

[TrillianAstra]

Is it the first of April today or something?

[flowerybeanbag]

ROFL at flame

[MollieO]

Geraldine could you ask BigTech rather than your local handyman?

[PortAndLemon]

Has the man from the shed been indulging in any psychoactive substances recently?

[flowerybeanbag]

I think someone should test it.

[IdrisTheDragon]

No I think it's all right as I just tried to be flowerytaleofnewyork and it told me it was already taken

[VinegarTits]

This is an outrage, i demand answers (can i bribe you buy my name?)

[Furball]

But why would MN have auctioned off old names, if you could have just used them anyway?

Me thinks the man in the shed is wrong. I bet he's like my dh when I call out a question, he just says yes willy nilly without listening to the question!

[flowerybeanbag]

He must be wrong mustn't he? Idris has proved it I reckon.

[TrillianAstra]

I thought the auction was names that people had registered, but never posted under, and agreed to give up. Or something. If you've ever left a post under a name it's yours and safe.

[flowerybeanbag]

Ooh, in that case I need some clarification. I namechanged to a different name to 'reserve' it because I didn't want anyone else to have it, but never actually posted in it. Does that mean someone could pinch that one?

[flowerybeanbags]

See, I think it should be tightened up, because everyone would think I am flowerybeanbag, and I'm not.

[tattybojangles]

it can't be true because I tried to be Tattiebojangles (with an ie rather than a y) and it wouldn't let me even though no one has posted under that name.

[VinegarTits]

Nice try Geraldine, i just change to FlamongoBongo and it wouldnt let me 'name already taken', i know FlamingoBingo was using it last week but now she is back to normal, so ner