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As I point out in my post, they often do. For example:

Telegram - https://telegram.org/faq#usernames-and-t-me

NPM - https://www.npmjs.com/policies/disputes

Github - https://help.github.com/en/articles/name-squatting-policy

Most sites have similar wording.

It's strange that you link to these articles to somehow justify the shitty thing you did, and they're straight out saying that you should _not_ be doing what you're doing.

The first paragraph of your post... "I quite often sign up to things just to snag the name."

GitHub: "GitHub account name squatting is prohibited."

Telegram: "we reserve the right to recall usernames assigned to unused bots and channels, as well as openly squatted usernames"

NPM: "Don't squat on package names, user names or organization names."

Dick move.

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