{"id":641667,"date":"2010-01-25T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Facebook-Apologizes-for-Revoking-Vanity-URL-Apparently-to-Sell-It-133017.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-25T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:06:00","slug":"facebook-apologizes-for-revoking-vanity-url-apparently-to-sell-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/641667","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Apologizes for Revoking Vanity URL, Apparently to Sell It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Facebook-Apologizes-for-Revoking-Vanity-URL-Apparently-to-Sell-It-2.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> Having a name similar, or identical in this case, to that of a known brand can prove to be quite a disadvantage when the company behind the brand decides it has the right to any instance of the name online. As Facebook user Harman Bajwa found out, the &#8216;little guy&#8217; usually doesn&#8217;t get a say in the matter as his vanity URL on the &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Facebook-Apologizes-for-Revoking-Vanity-URL-Apparently-to-Sell-It-133017.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a name similar, or identical in this case, to that of a known brand can prove to be quite a disadvantage when the company behind the brand decides it has the right to any instance of the name online. As Facebook user Harman Bajwa found out, the &#8216;little guy&#8217; usually doesn&#8217;t get a say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GVt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}