eBay provides a great deal of flexibility for users to select a user ID and Shop name that meets their needs. Our User ID policy provides guidelines on what names are allowed.

As a reminder, you can't have user IDs or Shop names that represent an email or web address (URL), nor include a website address in your Shop header.

In the past, we have allowed certain user IDs registered before this policy came into place in November 2001 to contain URLs. In response to community feedback, we will be standardising our policy and removing this exemption.

If you were previously allowed to trade with a user ID or Shop name containing a URL, please update your user ID and Shop name by Thursday 2nd October to comply with our User ID policy.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Regards,

The eBay Team