Claim your Medium URL
It’s important to be consistent with branding across the Internet. With a name like Heather Smith, my name is already taken by the eighty thousand plus other Heather Smith’s in the universe. To combat this I added AU to the end, so everywhere online, you should find me at HeatherSmithAU.
I now have the opportunity to claim this on the Medium platform. Currently, you can find my writing at https://medium.com/@HeatherSmithAU, but once I claim the new Medium URL, I’m told that will no longer be valid.
The new domain shall be at https://HeatherSmithAU.medium.com.This is based on my current username. Your current username can be found by clicking on your profile picture in the top-right corner of the page and click Settings > Account > Your username.
To Claim your vanity Medium URL, publish a new Medium post.
Write a post on your Medium profile.
Click the green button on the top right corner labelled Publish.
The next screen appears.
On the right you have the option to choose the image that will preview with the story — you can see I choose the second image.
On the left, I had the option to select 5 tags. I then Selected the green button labelled Publish now.
