@TeamYouTube https://www.youtube.com/captaincomedy Is there any reason this URL, which for over a decade led to my channel, now leads to someone else's channel, which is under three years old? Is there any recourse or options available to me to fix this? I have 10+ years of links to this URL.
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Replying to @captaincomedy
Thanks for the tag, custom URL can be claimed by anyone as long as it's available which is different to a legacy URL which can't be changed & depends on when your channel was created. More about channel URL here: https://yt.be/help/LYia
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Replying to @TeamYouTube
Yes, I've pored over every page about custom URLs on the YT Help knowledgebase. I'm still at a loss. Is any account able to claim any existing legacy URL, even if it's that of an existing username? Is it just a case of first dibs, finders keepers and I'm simply out of luck?
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Replying to @captaincomedy
If you haven't reserved a custom URL, it can be claimed by anyone while legacy URL can't be changed or removed. Custom URL shows as c/yourcustomname while legacy URL is user/yourcustomname. Hope it helps.
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Replying to @TeamYouTube
I understand custom and legacy now! But if a Custom URL is c/yourcustomname and a legacy URL is user/yourcustomname, what was http://youtube.com/yourcustomname ? For a decade it redirected to my page (and then to my legacy URL) but now it directs to another user's page. That's my confusion!
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Replying to @captaincomedy
This is a shorter version of your custom URL by removing “/c”, such as http://youtube.com/yourcustomname . If the custom URL has already been claimed by someone else, then /yourcustomname will now redirect to the new channel.
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Replying to @TeamYouTube
Okay, then my issue is that the custom URL was claimed by someone else while it was already in use by me for almost ten years. http://youtube.com/captaincomedy , which once WAS my URL, no longer is, and I'm not sure how exactly that came to pass.
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As we previously shared, if you haven't reserved the custom URL you want, then it can still be claimed by anyone. Hope this helps clarify.
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