A list of reserved usernames to avoid vanity URL collision with resource paths
# A list of possible usernames to reserve to avoid | |
# vanity URL collision with resource paths | |
# It is a merged list of the recommendations from this Quora discussion: | |
# http://www.quora.com/How-do-sites-prevent-vanity-URLs-from-colliding-with-future-features | |
# Country TLDs found here: | |
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains | |
# Languages found here: | |
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers | |
reserved_usernames = [ | |
# Companies we'd love to have use our service | |
# so we'll reserve them to be safe | |
'supportdetails', | |
'support-details', | |
'stacks', | |
'imulus', | |
'github', | |
'twitter', | |
'facebook', | |
'google', | |
'apple', | |
# Generic reserved words | |
'about', | |
'account', | |
'activate', | |
'add', | |
'admin', | |
'administrator', | |
'api', | |
'app', | |
'apps', | |
'archive', | |
'archives', | |
'auth', | |
'blog', | |
'cache', | |
'cancel', | |
'careers', | |
'cart', | |
'changelog', | |
'checkout', | |
'codereview', | |
'compare', | |
'config', | |
'configuration', | |
'connect', | |
'contact', | |
'create', | |
'delete', | |
'direct_messages', | |
'documentation', | |
'download', | |
'downloads', | |
'edit', | |
'email', | |
'employment', | |
'enterprise', | |
'faq', | |
'favorites', | |
'feed', | |
'feedback', | |
'feeds', | |
'fleet', | |
'fleets', | |
'follow', | |
'followers', | |
'following', | |
'friend', | |
'friends', | |
'gist', | |
'group', | |
'groups', | |
'help', | |
'home', | |
'hosting', | |
'hostmaster', | |
'idea', | |
'ideas', | |
'index', | |
'info', | |
'invitations', | |
'invite', | |
'is', | |
'it', | |
'job', | |
'jobs', | |
'json', | |
'language', | |
'languages', | |
'lists', | |
'login', | |
'logout', | |
'logs', | |
'mail', | |
'map', | |
'maps', | |
'mine', | |
'mis', | |
'news', | |
'oauth', | |
'oauth_clients', | |
'offers', | |
'openid', | |
'order', | |
'orders', | |
'organizations', | |
'plans', | |
'popular', | |
'post', | |
'postmaster', | |
'privacy', | |
'projects', | |
'put', | |
'recruitment', | |
'register', | |
'remove', | |
'replies', | |
'root', | |
'rss', | |
'sales', | |
'save', | |
'search', | |
'security', | |
'sessions', | |
'settings', | |
'shop', | |
'signup', | |
'sitemap', | |
'ssl', | |
'ssladmin', | |
'ssladministrator', | |
'sslwebmaster', | |
'status', | |
'stories', | |
'styleguide', | |
'subscribe', | |
'subscriptions', | |
'support', | |
'sysadmin', | |
'sysadministrator', | |
'terms', | |
'tour', | |
'translations', | |
'trends', | |
'unfollow', | |
'unsubscribe', | |
'update', | |
'url', | |
'user', | |
'weather', | |
'webmaster', | |
'widget', | |
'widgets', | |
'wiki', | |
'ww', | |
'www', | |
'wwww', | |
'xfn', | |
'xml', | |
'xmpp', | |
'yaml', | |
'yml', | |
# Top 50 languages by speaking population | |
'chinese', | |
'mandarin', | |
'spanish', | |
'english', | |
'bengali', | |
'hindi', | |
'portuguese', | |
'russian', | |
'japanese', | |
'german', | |
'wu', | |
'javanese', | |
'korean', | |
'french', | |
'vietnamese', | |
'telugu', | |
'chinese', | |
'marathi', | |
'tamil', | |
'turkish', | |
'urdu', | |
'min-nan', | |
'jinyu', | |
'gujarati', | |
'polish', | |
'arabic', | |
'ukrainian', | |
'italian', | |
'xiang', | |
'malayalam', | |
'hakka', | |
'kannada', | |
'oriya', | |
'panjabi', | |
'sunda', | |
'panjabi', | |
'romanian', | |
'bhojpuri', | |
'azerbaijani', | |
'farsi', | |
'maithili', | |
'hausa', | |
'arabic', | |
'burmese', | |
'serbo-croatian', | |
'gan', | |
'awadhi', | |
'thai', | |
'dutch', | |
'yoruba', | |
'sindhi', | |
# Country TLDs | |
'ac', # Ascension Island | |
'ad', # Andorra | |
'ae', # United Arab Emirates | |
'af', # Afghanistan | |
'ag', # Antigua and Barbuda | |
'ai', # Anguilla | |
'al', # Albania | |
'am', # Armenia | |
'an', # Netherlands Antilles | |
'ao', # Angola | |
'aq', # Antarctica | |
'ar', # Argentina | |
'as', # American Samoa | |
'at', # Austria | |
'au', # Australia | |
'aw', # Aruba | |
'ax', # and | |
'az', # Azerbaijan | |
'ba', # Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
'bb', # Barbados | |
'bd', # Bangladesh | |
'be', # Belgium | |
'bf', # Burkina Faso | |
'bg', # Bulgaria | |
'bh', # Bahrain | |
'bi', # Burundi | |
'bj', # Benin | |
'bm', # Bermuda | |
'bn', # Brunei Darussalam | |
'bo', # Bolivia | |
'br', # Brazil | |
'bs', # Bahamas | |
'bt', # Bhutan | |
'bv', # Bouvet Island | |
'bw', # Botswana | |
'by', # Belarus | |
'bz', # Belize | |
'ca', # Canada | |
'cc', # Cocos (Keeling) Islands | |
'cd', # Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
'cf', # Central African Republic | |
'cg', # Republic of the Congo | |
'ch', # Switzerland | |
'ci', # Côte d'Ivoire | |
'ck', # Cook Islands | |
'cl', # Chile | |
'cm', # Cameroon | |
'cn', # People's Republic of China | |
'co', # Colombia | |
'cr', # Costa Rica | |
'cs', # Czechoslovakia | |
'cu', # Cuba | |
'cv', # Cape Verde | |
'cx', # Christmas Island | |
'cy', # Cyprus | |
'cz', # Czech Republic | |
'dd', # East Germany | |
'de', # Germany | |
'dj', # Djibouti | |
'dk', # Denmark | |
'dm', # Dominica | |
'do', # Dominican Republic | |
'dz', # Algeria | |
'ec', # Ecuador | |
'ee', # Estonia | |
'eg', # Egypt | |
'eh', # Western Sahara | |
'er', # Eritrea | |
'es', # Spain | |
'et', # Ethiopia | |
'eu', # European Union | |
'fi', # Finland | |
'fj', # Fiji | |
'fk', # Falkland Islands | |
'fm', # Federated States of Micronesia | |
'fo', # Faroe Islands | |
'fr', # France | |
'ga', # Gabon | |
'gb', # United Kingdom | |
'gd', # Grenada | |
'ge', # Georgia | |
'gf', # French Guiana | |
'gg', # Guernsey | |
'gh', # Ghana | |
'gi', # Gibraltar | |
'gl', # Greenland | |
'gm', # The Gambia | |
'gn', # Guinea | |
'gp', # Guadeloupe | |
'gq', # Equatorial Guinea | |
'gr', # Greece | |
'gs', # South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
'gt', # Guatemala | |
'gu', # Guam | |
'gw', # Guinea-Bissau | |
'gy', # Guyana | |
'hk', # Hong Kong | |
'hm', # Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
'hn', # Honduras | |
'hr', # Croatia | |
'ht', # Haiti | |
'hu', # Hungary | |
'id', # Indonesia | |
'ie', # Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland | |
'il', # Israel | |
'im', # Isle of Man | |
'in', # India | |
'io', # British Indian Ocean Territory | |
'iq', # Iraq | |
'ir', # Iran | |
'is', # Iceland | |
'it', # Italy | |
'je', # Jersey | |
'jm', # Jamaica | |
'jo', # Jordan | |
'jp', # Japan | |
'ke', # Kenya | |
'kg', # Kyrgyzstan | |
'kh', # Cambodia | |
'ki', # Kiribati | |
'km', # Comoros | |
'kn', # Saint Kitts and Nevis | |
'kp', # Democratic People's Republic of Korea | |
'kr', # Republic of Korea | |
'kw', # Kuwait | |
'ky', # Cayman Islands | |
'kz', # Kazakhstan | |
'la', # Laos | |
'lb', # Lebanon | |
'lc', # Saint Lucia | |
'li', # Liechtenstein | |
'lk', # Sri Lanka | |
'lr', # Liberia | |
'ls', # Lesotho | |
'lt', # Lithuania | |
'lu', # Luxembourg | |
'lv', # Latvia | |
'ly', # Libya | |
'ma', # Morocco | |
'mc', # Monaco | |
'md', # Moldova | |
'me', # Montenegro | |
'mg', # Madagascar | |
'mh', # Marshall Islands | |
'mk', # Republic of Macedonia | |
'ml', # Mali | |
'mm', # Myanmar | |
'mn', # Mongolia | |
'mo', # Macau | |
'mp', # Northern Mariana Islands | |
'mq', # Martinique | |
'mr', # Mauritania | |
'ms', # Montserrat | |
'mt', # Malta | |
'mu', # Mauritius | |
'mv', # Maldives | |
'mw', # Malawi | |
'mx', # Mexico | |
'my', # Malaysia | |
'mz', # Mozambique | |
'na', # Namibia | |
'nc', # New Caledonia | |
'ne', # Niger | |
'nf', # Norfolk Island | |
'ng', # Nigeria | |
'ni', # Nicaragua | |
'nl', # Netherlands | |
'no', # Norway | |
'np', # Nepal | |
'nr', # Nauru | |
'nu', # Niue | |
'nz', # New Zealand | |
'om', # Oman | |
'pa', # Panama | |
'pe', # Peru | |
'pf', # French Polynesia | |
'pg', # Papua New Guinea | |
'ph', # Philippines | |
'pk', # Pakistan | |
'pl', # Poland | |
'pm', # Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | |
'pn', # Pitcairn Islands | |
'pr', # Puerto Rico | |
'ps', # Palestinian territories | |
'pt', # Portugal | |
'pw', # Palau | |
'py', # Paraguay | |
'qa', # Qatar | |
're', # Réunion | |
'ro', # Romania | |
'rs', # Serbia | |
'ru', # Russia | |
'rw', # Rwanda | |
'sa', # Saudi Arabia | |
'sb', # Solomon Islands | |
'sc', # Seychelles | |
'sd', # Sudan | |
'se', # Sweden | |
'sg', # Singapore | |
'sh', # Saint Helena | |
'si', # Slovenia | |
'sj', # Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands | |
'sk', # Slovakia | |
'sl', # Sierra Leone | |
'sm', # San Marino | |
'sn', # Senegal | |
'so', # Somalia | |
'sr', # Suriname | |
'ss', # South Sudan | |
'st', # São Tomé and PrÃncipe | |
'su', # Soviet Union | |
'sv', # El Salvador | |
'sy', # Syria | |
'sz', # Swaziland | |
'tc', # Turks and Caicos Islands | |
'td', # Chad | |
'tf', # French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
'tg', # Togo | |
'th', # Thailand | |
'tj', # Tajikistan | |
'tk', # Tokelau | |
'tl', # East Timor | |
'tm', # Turkmenistan | |
'tn', # Tunisia | |
'to', # Tonga | |
'tp', # East Timor | |
'tr', # Turkey | |
'tt', # Trinidad and Tobago | |
'tv', # Tuvalu | |
'tw', # Republic of China (Taiwan) | |
'tz', # Tanzania | |
'ua', # Ukraine | |
'ug', # Uganda | |
'uk', # United Kingdom | |
'us', # United States of America | |
'uy', # Uruguay | |
'uz', # Uzbekistan | |
'va', # Vatican City | |
'vc', # Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |
've', # Venezuela | |
'vg', # British Virgin Islands | |
'vi', # United States Virgin Islands | |
'vn', # Vietnam | |
'vu', # Vanuatu | |
'wf', # Wallis and Futuna | |
'ws', # Samoa | |
'ye', # Yemen | |
'yt', # Mayotte | |
'yu', # Yugoslavia | |
'za', # South Africa | |
'zm', # Zambia | |
'zw' # Zimbabwe | |
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kevinSuttle
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Jun 17, 2015
You can add "marketplace" |
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aronwoost
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Aug 3, 2015
"chinese", "panjabi" and "arabic" double. |
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philrykoff
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Dec 6, 2016
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I just came across this: http://blog.postbit.com/reserved-username-list.html. I may create a combined list, possibly with other entries. Edit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gj1LidTJgA1TgOjhxTaoQKaZTvV2-xZlvo9XEsBnZ5I/edit#gid=0 - and "abuse". Also, you may add your own companies' name or nicknames. Thanks for this! :-) |
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tobyhinloopen
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Jun 26, 2018
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Thank you for your list, @philrykoff ! I copied your list to our project :) |
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ellatrix commentedSep 8, 2013
Maybe these too: event, events, page, pages?