How do I get a cool MySpace URL?Most of my friends have nice MySpace URLs that let them easily point new friends to their profiles, but I haven't seen where I can set up one like that for myself. Instead I have some lame eight digit number like 84030403. That sux. How can I get this working? Well, maybe your setup is different to mine, but when I go onto MySpace and look at my own profile by clicking on Home in the top left corner, right below my picture is a little red box that makes it pretty hard not to figure out how to set up a unique URL:  Click on that and you'll have the chance to specify what URL you'd like -- assuming it's not already taken, of course -- but you'll also get this rather puzzling warning: "Your Display Name is: Dave. You can change your Display Name as often as you want, just like you always have. But now we have a new MYSPACE NAME/URL feature. Each user can pick a unique MySpace Name. It will become your own custom URL. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR DISPLAY NAME. You'll still be able to change the name that appears on your MySpace profile whenever you want. But you won't be able to change your MYSPACE NAME/URL once you pick it, so be careful!" What they're trying to explain here is that MySpace actually works with four different name/key identifiers for each user. There's your email address, your "display name" (mine here is "Dave" and is certainly not unique on MySpace!), your URL shortcut name, and your "Real Name". Let's just focus on the URL, however:  Click "Submit" and then you'll get this entertaining series of confirmation dialogs. First:  then  Then, finally, it'll check to see if your selected URL name is available. If it is already in use, then you'll see Error: This username is not available! (This username has been taken by another user) in which case you'll now be invited to enter your real name. Should you? Well, MySpace assures you that your real name will be private and will never show up as the result of a search, so it's probably safe, and I've certainly opted to do so, but you'll need to make up your own mind in this regard. Once I enter my real name and press "submit", I end up here:
 Nice. Oh, and MySpace also conveniently gives you the HTML necessary to add this sort of spiffo link to any of your other profiles, your blog, or your Web page: Hopefully you'll have as easy a time of it with your own custom URL!
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. was that a trick ? lol Having trouble with my blog and url name... the ? is, how do i change my email or blog so that when people try to search me on myspace with my email adress (stmroller123@aol.com) it doesnt show up. i need to disable that somehow... please help... Posted by: michael at May 9, 2006 2:59 PMI see a lot of my friends with neat looking display names (like they have custom made ones with pictures in it) and I would like to know either where to get one, how to make one, or if there is any html that I can use to make one work once I do make one. Could you please help me? Thank you in advance, how do i change the names above i once changed my url. only because myspace may have gone through some problems. once my url was: myspace.com/daveownsyou and it still says that for my myspaceIM but then a sign showed on my myspace HOME and said i needed a URL because i didn't have one. I clicked it and decided to come up with a silly one (thinking it wouldn't work). to my suprise it did work. i clicked back a few times and tried to change my url once more but it didn't work. now my url is: myspace.com/davidddddddddddddddddddd but ofcourse on myspaceIM it remains /daveownsyou. just an interesting story i thought you might wanna hear. what i'm trying to say is, it's possible to get new url's. someone just needs to find out how. Posted by: david at July 22, 2006 4:36 PMhow do you move your display name on your page? Posted by: pamela at July 26, 2006 3:08 AMI want to change my email to another one and I dont want the OLD one being able to be searched and leading right back to myspace site. It does!! How do I fix that or is there a period of time it takes for the NEW one to be searchable and the old one no longer be found? Ugh..I need a little privacy from people who know my old one. Posted by: spud at August 19, 2006 2:39 PMI'm having a problem with my account. I deleated an account recently, and created a new one. My problem is that my email doesn't seem to be working. I can receive emails from other people, however, I can't send any. My friends get a message that I sent them email, but there is nothing inside when they try and open it. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what is wrong. The only thing that I can come up with is that maybe I used the same MySpace URL for both accounts; the account I deleated and this new one. I'm not sure how my account would be effected; I just know that I would like this to be fixed. I'm not good at computer troubleshooting. Thank you Posted by: Wally at September 2, 2006 5:57 PMcan we do anything if we dont like our old url? cause i made mine when i was a bit yonger and i wanna change it. Posted by: Casey at October 6, 2006 2:40 PMI want to change my URL on my myspace because it is a little gay. My frind made my myspace for me and she thought it would have been funny. Please HELPPP=] Posted by: Samantha at October 9, 2006 8:19 AMi love you! Posted by: erica at November 26, 2006 10:19 PMI never picked a URL. I think someone hacked my page and picked one for me. Is there any way I can change it. Please help me.... Posted by: Kelly at November 27, 2006 2:51 PMhi..well i changed my url and it was fine..when i logged back in later it had gone back to that silly one with the numbers..now it wont let me change it back again...what do i do? Posted by: sal at December 6, 2006 12:57 PMi don't have aol no more i wonder how can i send a picture to my space if i can't send it by my e-mail can i send it to my yahoo or wat should i do i can't send to my aol becouse it's cancel so wat should i really do? Posted by: Precious at December 12, 2006 4:14 PMhow do i get to myspace from school! they have stronger filters Posted by: rick at December 15, 2006 10:57 AMy'all really need to learn how to work with html. take a class at school maybe, google it, use wikipedia. i didnt know crap about html before i got my myspace, now ive taught myself how to make div layouts and custom pages and scripts, and even how to program in java and C++. just look at the premade codes you get, google stuff, thats all. some basic codes are [img src="..."], which puts an image in whatever field you place the code in. also to make links, use [a href='LINK GOES HERE] LINK TEXT [/a]. Posted by: Matt at December 16, 2006 4:29 PMI can't even get myspace at school any more can u help me i'm in Washingtonville high school in the state of new york please help me ..... Posted by: harmonie at February 9, 2007 6:51 AMHOW TO GET IN TO MYSPACE ON SHCOOL PROPERTY..... Posted by: NENA_PRECIOUS at February 23, 2007 12:52 PMHi Julia Posted by: Julia at February 24, 2007 8:01 PMI would like to know how to change my id number. This is somewhat petty, but when I first set up my page, I had some graphics on it. I then put a pix up. When I went to myspace top 100, to enter my profile, it picked up the graphics for the pix, instead of using my picture. I have since deleted that graphic and added more pix, when I go back to bowio and enter my friend ID, the same old graphic comes up, so when people go to click on the box and vote for me, it shows graphics, not a pix. How do I change this. I love my profile and don't want to change it, but would love to have a new myspace id number that would reflect my picture as the default, not a graphics picture. please help me. Posted by: rianna ryan at February 25, 2007 12:20 PMHey okay I hated my MYSPACE URL so what I did was major research. Okay so every month Tom picks 10 people from myspace to get a chance to change their URL. Thats what I did, and now I want to change again. Ugh. Takes about a month! Longer your name says "Tom Pick Me." The better luck you'll have. Goodluck Everyone, Phish evil someone stole my email and my password dont know what to do with can you help me please!!!!! Posted by: Christian Vargas at March 1, 2007 11:36 PMi really want to change my url its tooo i dont know... but y realy want to chage it!! how can i do that? Posted by: Mely at March 8, 2007 10:26 AMplease help me change this awful url,my password was stolen by someone who dislikes my gorgeous red head sister and i cant bare to look at such an ugly display,please help soon,thanks Posted by: Ashelina at March 10, 2007 3:03 AMYou CAN'T change your URL, not now not ever. But, if you don't like your url and you want to hide it from people thiscode will get rid of the url box on your page
hello i can not change my url =] if you can change it i would like to change it to i really want to change my url plezz help Posted by: michaelah at April 15, 2007 10:20 PMhow to do up my myspace page? Posted by: warren at May 23, 2007 2:40 AMTHIS BE ME Posted by: Blaine at May 25, 2007 9:14 PMi want to my url to http://www.myspace.com/Precious_smith Posted by: precious at June 27, 2007 3:12 PMcan u help me change my myspace url name please Posted by: samantha at July 2, 2007 7:23 PMyou cant change your my space url you either have to make another account or wait till you get the myspace bug that happens every now and then on myspace that makes you url disappear and you can make another one but you have to act QUICK on it or the bug will be patched or close whatever ive done iot before and changed my url, hopefullly itll happen to me again cause i still dont like mine. Posted by: Big-T0nY at July 21, 2007 5:50 PMi hate my url it sucks i dont kno wat wuz thinkin Posted by: shakera at August 5, 2007 3:12 PMi would really would love my url to be changed Posted by: sharron hernandez at August 7, 2007 7:53 PMnew url Posted by: mosquito at August 16, 2007 4:34 PMsup Posted by: john at August 31, 2007 10:08 AMi really want to change my url...please will you help me...please...! Posted by: michael everett at September 10, 2007 6:46 PMthanks if you an do it Posted by: damien at October 3, 2007 10:53 AMHi! I don't want to change my url coz i don't really care but is it possible to change my user id number? or my joind date coz i joined before but my other account got deleted and i want my original sign up date :] yeah i know it sounds dumb xD please and thank you! Posted by: Christine at October 21, 2007 11:21 PMHow can i change my old email to my new one? Someone hacked my account and changed my url to something offensive, is there a way to change it? pleasee Posted by: Willy at October 30, 2007 10:15 AMyo dave you rock Posted by: poohead at November 6, 2007 5:35 PMPlease help me! I just set up a myspace page a couple of days ago. When my friends try to search my name the page I created does not come up but a no photo with a little of my info comes up. When they search my email add the page I created comes up. I don't have a common name, is it possible someone tried to set up a page using my name? If so how do I change it so my page comes up when my name is search Hi, When I search for my name, the name I originally used to set up my account shows up and not the name that I have saved. How can I update the system so when my only the name I have on my profile shows up? Posted by: Marisa at December 1, 2007 12:46 PMI have no problems logging into myspace using the members log in and password. My URL: works also but from the search screen I can not find my account if I put in my name, display name or e-mail address. A message comes up saying sorry we were not able to find my information on myspace.com this is my first time 2 have 1 Posted by: gaby at February 10, 2008 4:24 PMIf some1 calls me a poser, i will freaking hurt them. This is the real britney!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Britney Spears at February 27, 2008 5:15 AMmyspace stand up Posted by: young J at February 28, 2008 10:53 AMOK.....your instructions will be great for new people on myspace. HOWEVER, those of us who have been here for a little while cannot follow those instructions, so the question remains. How do you change the look of the URL section? And I don't mean the add color background and edge. I mean the font style, size and color. Posted by: John at March 22, 2008 12:08 AMcan u help me change my myspace url name please www.myspace.com/Monkeeheadz change www.myspace.com/ya_Monkey thank you. Posted by: Ya at March 26, 2008 10:49 AMI have a lot to say, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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