{"id":225191,"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.media\/index\/225191","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Apologizes for Revoking Vanity URL, Apparently to Sell It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Facebook-Apologizes-for-Revoking-Vanity-URL-Apparently-to-Sell-It-2.jpg\" 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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}