Tango.info user name restrictions

A tango.info username has exactly 8 letters of the latin alphabet. Preferred are names that are related to your real name.

The 8 letter usernames can be used directly in URLs, e.g. http://www.tango.info/tobiasco. To have no collisions with other names in tango, there are some naming restrictions in force.

Word restrictions

It should not:

• contain any of the words: tango, milonga, event, festival
• be a word (esp. not in English or Spanish)
  • singular, e.g. "marathon"
  • plural, e.g. "milongas" / http://www.tango.info/milongas
• be a name of
  • a geographic entity, e.g. a city "mannheim".
  • a person
    • common first name, e.g. "benjamin"
    • common last name, e.g. "pfeiffer"
    • name of person in tango history, e.g. Pugliese, Francini, Castillo

Length restrictions

Currently all usernames must be 8 characters long.

• users that sign up later shall not have the disadvantage of longer names, vs users that sign up early and get shorter.
• presenting all usernames in a list gives a more harmonious picture if they are of equal length

Character restrictions

• only letters of the Latin alphabet are allowed.

See also

• tango.info user
• tango.info user name
• tango.info user name listing
• tango.info user account creation