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Just my personal observation. I earned around half a million dollars by running an "autoclaimer" that would automatically register Instagram names as they'd become available. I'd regularly see Instagram employees grabbing names from my portfolio for themselves.
How do valuable usernames 'become available'? Like the person deletes their account?
If your IG handle is the same as your HN handle, could it be some very motivated people from that country's bureaucracy looking to take that handle for the state?
Likely a phone call is all it would take and Meta would happily hand it over.
I'd auction and sell it and be done with the headache personally. It's likely one day your meta well will dry up and that will be it, years of back and forth to see the handle gone and promoting crypto eventually or some crap.
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Yes indeed - I thought everyone knew that /s :) You’ll be amazed how much googling I do when having conversations with friends - I wasn’t born in the West and things like movie references leave me confused af! But I hide it… thank goodness for urban dictionary
Looks up "af"
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I'm not up-to-date with what OG means. Apparently OG "original gangster" usernames refer to common words such as "@Miracle", that were registered by early adopters. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/style/instagram-account-f...
Yes indeed - I thought everyone knew that /s :) You’ll be amazed how much googling I do when having conversations with friends - I wasn’t born in the West and things like movie references leave me confused af! But I hide it… thank goodness for urban dictionary
I remember the ICQ days where the shorter your ICQ number, you are the OG of OG's..
instagramz.com is a legit domain owned by Facebook
Sure looks like it, nameservers point there. Seems a Facebook\b\b\bMeta employee did this to you OP.
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Yes indeed - I thought everyone knew that /s :) You’ll be amazed how much googling I do when having conversations with friends - I wasn’t born in the West and things like movie references leave me confused af! But I hide it… thank goodness for urban dictionary
But what's considered as an OG account? Age? Short handle? Something that isn't imaginative or a portmanteau of something? I remember the ICQ days where the shorter your ICQ number, you are the OG of OG's..
You will be forever fucked, as big as Meta/Facebook/Instagram's exploit attack surface is. Microsoft/Office/Xbox is in a similar position as well.
early lucky adopters not employees will always have their accounts poached constantly on every common platform. eventually those who have the names paid for the 'rights,' or defend it communally.
yes, communally - it is a literal racket of cybergangters on every platform leveraging anything from social engineering your doxxed naive grandma into reading a private key to 0-daying your teamviewer to install a common keylogger.
bribing csr's is extremely common, as is sim-swapping (bribing att/verizon csr's), and there are a myriad of attack vectors in between
but of course 94% are just script kiddies using a "turbo"/api-spammer to take the username between other 3rd party transactions. it's a parasitic economy of bottom-feeders and iGangsters.
Your situation is apparently common nowadays with OG usernames and can get very dangerous. I had no idea this was a thing until I listened to an episode on Darknet Diaries [0] recently. In the old days, I remember people going after short domains in the same manner. ICANN ended up adding locking (auth codes) - perhaps IG and other social sites can learn from it. Be safe! [0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/106/
I'll have to listen!
Good luck defending your handle!
ha....someone stole this domain or hijacked/spoofed an email chain in the password reset api. you should be honored.
>Last updated from Registry RDAP DB: 2021-12-28 06:35:41 UTC
it of course still resolves to instagram.