All Facebook Pages Can Get Vanity URLs Starting Sunday at Midnight

While the Facebook username landrush officially opened two weeks ago, Pages with under 1,000 fans or created after May 31 still haven’t been allowed to get vanity URLs. However, Facebook is lifting that restriction this weekend: starting at 11:59pm ET on Sunday, June 28, all Facebook Page owners will be able to obtain vanity URLs for their Pages.

Why did Facebook not allow all Page owners to get usernames at the same time as everyone else? Essentially, to mitigate squatting.

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