How often is your "unique" online handle in use?

[FoBoT]

never, i am FoBoT everywhere

 

[KC5AV]

kc5av is my amateur radio callsign. It's my unique ID as long as I choose to keep it.

 

[hevnsnt]

my weak nick is never taken anywhere.

 

[Lonyo]

Never, except on IRC if someone deliberately takes it (such as just after I've pinged out :/)

 

[Spamela]

there are other Spamela's out there, but i'm the authentic one.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Name speaks for itself

 

[BatmanNate]

Never in my experience. I was even the original on AOL in 94 or so.

 

[Spooner]

I've always had some concoction of the word "Spoon"

it's morphed over the years, but Spoon has remained consistent throughout.

Oh, and don't ask me why

 

[jurzdevil]

never seen anyone else with jurzdevil

 

[TallBill]

only seen one other tallbill out there, and its cuz i searched on google

 

[Brutuskend]

never ever.

 

[dighn]

mine is too unique (no it doesn't mean anything)

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Considering the number of people that know what my forum nick is a reference to, it's oddly rare. My IRC nick is also rarely used but is more often used, and one person managed to use it over 50 times in one day (limit to the server's /whowas log) while getting killed once every 3 minutes... for 4 consecutive days. My email nick is never used unless it's because I abandoned the address or some spammer on a "lets use random letters and numbers" move took it.

 

[cavemanmoron]

tried to get "caveman" at aol when i bought my first computer
it was taken

so i tried cavemanmoron,because i felt so dumb,about the online stuff..

now i get a message at some places; that the name is too long, LOL

otherwise seems unique,unless i was there and forgot password, Doh,

 

[Mallow]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Never had it taken anywhere, but someone's had the domain for a few years and never really done anything with it.
[edit]
Well that's just ducky, I checked it again and now it's apparently for gay pr0n

lol! Sorry to hear that your name is associated with such a thing. Maybe they will let you have a free membership? Might not want it but it's free eh?

Thanks for all the great responses guys! Anyone else?

 

[4Lclovergirl]

Never so far, but this is a new handle My old ones were used everywhere, and I was sick of having a different number at the end for each website.

 

[Yzzim]

I use this name EVERYWHERE except for Ebay, where some guy registered the name back in 98 or something :| I asked the guy about it and he said that people called him "Yzzim" in the locker room in high school. I stopped talking to him after that :Q

 

[GroundZero]

before 9/11 it was never taken.
after 9/11 is always seems to be taken.
have been Ground Zero for many years dating back to the beta release of starsiege and tribes.

 

[Ryan]

I've been using this name since i signed up on ebay in 1998, and I have NEVER had a rpoblem with it being taken

 

[jlee]

Once..

 

[Supermercado]

Sometimes. More often than not, though, it's not taken. For some reason, I want to say that it was taken here (Supermercado), so I used a mispronounciation of it that one of my old CS clanmates made one time), but I've not really ever had a problem getting it (or another that I use just as often as Supermercado).

Although there is someone on IRC right now that has "Super" and won't give it back (limited to 9 characters so I can't use my whole name).....

 

[tweakmm]

there is a tweakmm on aim, but what name isn't taken on aim?

 

[DrPizza]

I've been getting sick of being DrPizza lately... But, have only run into 1 other DrPizza somewhere.

I think I'll return to my college nics (which I already reserved at several places in case I want to use them some day)

 

[JoPh]

back when i was first on the internet joph was never used but over the years i have seen it grow to more people using it. i wasnt able to get in in AOL cause i hated aol for the longest time and refused to use AIM but i was sucked into it.

but mostly i can get joph all the time. i think. i really dont sign up for much stuff any more. but my name is growing. i wish it was still unique.

 

[Carl Uman]

Never