XBox / Games For Windows Live question

[Kitsune Sniper]

Why not do a variation upon it? Name yourself The New Kitsune Sniper or Kitsune Sniper 2.0 or some other variation of it. Or just get rid of the space and use KitsuneSniper, which isn't taken. That would seem to be the most logical and painless course of action to take if I were in your position and wanted to be consistent and maintain my online nickname.

But this isn't my nickname anymore. I changed my main online nickname to Foxhack four years ago, and I use it pretty much everywhere except here (because I didn't think it would be OK with the mods if I made a new account) and at a few other sites, most of which I don't visit anymore. I'm known around the internet as Foxhack at Kotaku, Lifehacker, Youtube, Twitter, ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and other similar sites.

What's funny is that a lot of places started to get user registrations using that name after I started to use the nick. This is why I usually suspect squatters, there's lots of people who just take the names in hope they'll be able to sell them or use them make a buck later on. (The person who had the foxhack.com domain wanted to sell it for a few hundred bucks! I waited him out and bought it when he let it go, bwahahaha!)