AIM no longer allows nicks?

[vlion]

I lost the password to my vlion1066 AIM account. I made it around 1999, and had not updated teh emails it was associated with since. Okay. So I went to set up a new username.

HOWEVER, it looks like AOL now uses your email address for your username. Fail, fail, fail, fail.

I would like my pseudonym *back*, thank you very much.