A friend of mine and I made up the name while prank calling Taco Bell. We also ended up prank calling his girlfriend's sister, and left several joking messages on her voicemail. Long story short, we almost got the police called on us because her dad took them as threats.

Nope, I live in the US and I'm having the same problem.

I'm getting it too. Usually that means the minecraft.net server's down, but it's not.