Mumsnet Nickname Auction... - all proceeds for A Mile for Maude

[OliviaMumsnet]

...Coming soon to Mumsnet.
We'll be auctioning off some of the best nicknames. So if there's a name that you've been hankering after, get your wallet ready and watch this space.

oooooooooh

not current ones?

Isn't that going to be incredibly confusing? Would love Suedonim, but don't want to confuse people by suddenly appearing as her IYSWIM? Or is this about unused names, such as Cod hankering after Dogsby?

Ladymuck, it is long unused ones I think.
So people who have yearned to be Dogsby, now can be, etc

I wonder how long unused they have to have been?

I think it is a bit like college lockers.
The owners get a mail saying, if you do not use this name in...a month...it's gone.
I guess they will be writing to people who have either never posted or haven't done so for a year or more.

Will these be names of people who have not used MN for ages? Otherwise how will we know they are not somebody's old namechange?

We're still working out the nuts and bolts of how this will work, but we will be back, hopefully later today, with a cunning plan.
There's certainly a list of names that have been registered and then never used, but there may also be scope for us to look into auctioning names that folks have hankered after... as long as the price is right of course

Will report back later

How much for Mrs Doughtfire,
or even Tootsie??

Oi, gerroff, LadyM!!

Oooo I've always wanted fenellathekettlewitch but it was taken

I hope that your internet connection is working in Lagos my dear! It would be most unfortunate if you couldn't post for a month (in every sense actually).

It works intermittently, LadyM. Rather like the rest of Nigeria, come to think of it.

can we donate some of our unwanted name changes? i've got loads that i'm never going to use again.

should i put them in a bin liner and leave them by the door?

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Flame!

What if its a name you change to and only use now and then????

The richest members of the mumsnet society get the pick.

The difficulty with nicknames that have been used already is that obviously there are previous posts. And you don't really want to have a nickname with a posting history that's not your own - as said that would be confusing.

So what we think is that if you would really like a nickname and we find that it hasn't been used much - say only once or twice in March 2001 on the For Sale board - then we're happy to delete the previous posting history and transfer the nickname.

We'll publish a list of nicknames never used shortly (ie when Tech surfaces) and if the one you're desperate for isn't on the list you can let us know and we'll see if we can make it available.

Hope that makes sense.

I'm special as I got BingoStingo for free

Incidently all the proceeds of the auction are for a Mile for Maude (whoops we should have made that clear in the title)

will make donation quick

This one was free.

giggles