Facebook, why you are joking on Beijing?

Anyone who want to grab good unique custom URLs such as http://facebook.com/beijing will be disappointed.

Although when you type the URL in your browser, it seems is available by showing a message "

The page you requested was not found.

".

If you try to register this username, you will be prompted "this username is not available"

I did a bit research, it seems that Facebook reserves names of countries and their capital when the population or area is above a certain threshold:

For example: Lesotho, Eritrea

They have been reserved, by Facebook.

People who want to own a URL of a capital city, be quick! One is available for some reason: Maseru (It is a city with over 200,000 people, capital of Lesotho.）

Go to http://facebook.com/username to grab it now! When it's gone, it's gone. If you are creating a fan page for this name, you will need 25 Likes before your page is eligible for a unique name. You can get 100 likes here

It is interesting to see that Twitter allowed people to sell accounts such as @Isarel for 6 figure sum, while Facebook retains these geographical names and potentially will give the right to use them to the owner for free?