Starting at midnight Eastern time on Saturday, Facebook's more than 200 million users will be able to personalize the URLs for their profiles, the company announced Tuesday. By rolling out so-called ...

A vanity URL is a Web address that contains the name of a user or product. On Facebook, for example, John Smith's vanity URL could be facebook.com/johnsmith. Your ...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to stay up past midnight to try to grab a vanity URL on Facebook. After all, I have a 2-year-old who would certainly be waking me up bright ...

When you're creating a URL, context is everything. The URL you create for a personal blog would be different from your business website's URL. When you use a subdomain to create a custom vanity URL, ...

Because www.wm.edu/offices/communityvalues/sarp/studenthandbook/ won't fit on a postcard. Good information architecture does not necessarily translate to simple URLs ...

The ability of Google to reclaim any custom name precedes this clause, and it makes sense for the Google+ Team to highlight that power at the outset of the custom URL project. But offering a free hit ...

A few weeks ago, the Google+ team punked The Oatmeal by redirecting its Google+ profile URL to a slightly more interesting (and profanity-laden) URL. That, it turns out, what just a test for today’s ...

Update: Verified account signups are now live. Reserve your profile today. As a holiday treat, Twitter has announced that it will begin allowing Vine users to register for vanity URLs for their ...

A recent study by audio ad agency Oxford Road suggests that vanity URLs, which are commonly used in audio advertising to track ad effectiveness, may not be delivering reliable results. Instead, the ...