What's happening with fastmail.com

[robn]

We're starting the rollout now.

First we rollout the site updates, including the session transition stuff (making sure your existing logged-in session works seamlessly moves to .com). Once that's done and all our health checks are passing, then we'll open up .com registrations.

It should all be live within the hour.

[Merovingian]

got mine!!

w00t!!!

[B4its2L8]

I got mine (my first name)!

I finally lived up to my EMD username!

[sflorack]

Name already taken.. Years of FM loyalty and apparently it means crap.

[horatio8]

mine already taken...very upset...two enhanced accounts since 2006


update: I got mine...what a relief...got an error message my first try...then said taken...tried once more and showed up

[Terry]

Try again mine failed a couple of times then went through....

[Switchblade]

Maybe your accounts had "too simple" names, so they got some kind of "harvested".

@ sflorack
I totally know what you mean.

Edit:
Now I'm going to go sleeping.

[sflorack]

Not to be a smartass, but apparently we were too slow. To be honest, I don't use any of my FM usernames (I use personal domains), but it would have been a nice gesture to get some preferential treatment for 8+ years of support..

[horatio8]

Originally Posted by sflorack

Not to be a smartass, but apparently we were too slow. To be honest, I don't use any of my FM usernames (I use personal domains), but it would have been a nice gesture to get some preferential treatment for 8+ years of support..

Did you try more than once? I first got an error message, then a taken message, then success. Good luck

[Switchblade]

Originally Posted by sflorack

Not to be a smartass, but apparently we were too slow. To be honest, I don't use any of my FM usernames (I use personal domains), but it would have been a nice gesture to get some preferential treatment for 8+ years of support..

Especially when everybody can get only one alias. That should have been possible. =(

[cmac]

i guess i lucked out and used my one rename to change to my firstname@fastmail.com...i really didn't think i'd get it. thanks for the heads up everyone!

[robn]

Rollout is just finished now, it is possible that your alias or rename didn't work because the system was in a half-rolled-out state. There's not a lot of new aliases added yet (~100) so try again.

[nighthawk700]

My first name was already nabbed too. Ah well, I mostly use my personal domain anyway. No matter how Fastmail did this, people would not get what they want and people would be upset. I'm fine with it and think they did the best the could under the circumstances.

[sflorack]

Originally Posted by Switchblade

Especially when everybody can get only one alias. That should have been possible. =(

Yeah.. But 12+ years (sorry, I underestimated it before..) of FM support has also made me completely aware of the fact that they may be genius programmers with zero PR skills.

[Merovingian]

Originally Posted by robn

Rollout is just finished now, it is possible that your alias or rename didn't work because the system was in a half-rolled-out state. There's not a lot of new aliases added yet (~100) so try again.

if there aren't a ton of aliases registered right away, would that speed up the timeline that more than one .com alias can be added per account?