I used to have @paulg on Twitter. One day, a Twitter founder re-assigned it to pg. I never even got to use it :)

I registered it when I arrived to Startup School 2007. All of us had never seen or heard PG speak online or video, but just essays. The nerdy idea was, what if there's a blog or twitter account that sounds like PG's essays but about mundane topics?

I could have transferred it myself, years earlier, but I forgot I even did that until an article came out.

I also registered "docs" when Facebook allowed apps to have custom usernames. It was re-assigned to Microsoft the next day.

Still pays to contact PayPal to insert a note into your account NOT TO RELEASE ANY DETAILS to this day.

Not using them seems a good option. But at some point you need to trust someone.

[2014]

Opening twitter.com/n, it's still/back under his control and he's tweeted as recently as June 10.

If I cared I'd try to find his follow-up post.

No follow-up blog post, but these tweets show a brief progression:

https://mobile.twitter.com/N/status/428356597622902784 https://mobile.twitter.com/N/status/428679789491138560 https://mobile.twitter.com/N/status/428751111298621441 https://mobile.twitter.com/N/status/438426408721735680

The last one seems to be from the day he got his account name back, about a month after the original blog post.

Looks like he has different problems now

https://mobile.twitter.com/N/status/1535265460165390340

> Opening twitter.com/n, it's still/back under his control and he's tweeted as recently as June 10.

> If I cared I'd try to find his follow-up post.

you cared a bit more then me...

GoDaddy is a terrible company, I have a policy of not using them because they are also known for shutting down domains due to pressure from Twitter mobs

I like hover.com because it’s from Tucows who I fondly remember from the 90s

good that the nic of my domain has more strigent rules for changing owners of the domain.