Yahoo bans people from regestering with the word Osama in your name

[ECH1969]

I'm sorry to report, though, that any login name containing the word "Osama" still cannot be registered on Yahoo!. Perhaps there was a concern that Mr. Bin Laden would try to register as himself so he could keep up with colleagues, like Ayman Zawahiri and Abu Zarqawi. (Ironically, if you're name is Zarqawi or Zawahiri, you're more than welcome to register; I just tried registering ZarqawisStud and ZawahiriBaby, and Yahoo! congratulated me that both names were available.)

As a test, I tried registering some Osama variants, including osamalamamama63, 4osamarama874d and bigosamashazbot. None of them was available, and I cannot imagine the names were actually taken already. Osama, of course, is simply the Arabic version of the name Samuel, so all the innocent, law abiding citizens of the world who just happen to be named Osama are out of luck when it comes to selecting a personalized Yahoo! email address. What's puzzling, though, is that my friend Osama Manzar uses a Yahoo! address with his name in it. He must have been grandfathered in by Yahoo! when their anti-Osama policy was created.

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[Canuckistanian]

1. Osama was the name of a Muslim hero

He was an army commander for The Prophet Mohammed.

[LuCifer]

2. Oh that is so dumb...

...so I guess I won't be getting [email protected] dang it!
THANK YAHOO! Just keep giving me reasons to switch to Gmail!

Lu

[ECH1969]

3. But, someone for sure is going to take

ZarqawisStud pretty soon.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. What about Osaka?

Is that still okay?

[DBoon]

5. or Brian?

Someone might find that offensive as well.

[tom_paine]

6. I've got no problem with that. It's their site

[The Straight Story]

7. They just re-enabled 'allah' in login names (nt)