posted on May 22, 2001 11:40:38 AM
I noticed that the word "urinal" is still available.
But there aren't many other common dictionary words that aren't already user IDs on eBay. We had a thread on this in the OTWA forum and even words like "noun" and "seller" and "naru" are taken. Folks looked around their offices and tried to find words that aren't user ID's and found that even "stapler", "pencil", "paperclip", and "desk" are eBay user IDs.
Will it be a status symbol in the future to have an eBay ID that's a common word with no numbers after it? Hmmmm...