Skype Name Changed (Yes! my Skype name. Not my Dis...

So i attempted to sign in with my original, as i believe, Skype name and password. They were both accurate. (Trust me. The ink was not smudged.) Sign in failed. Repeatedly. i asked for a reset of the password. Followed the procedure and reset my password. Sign in again failed. Repeatedly.
At this point i noticed that the Skpe Email reset was showing my account name but it was differrent by one character to my original, as i believe and had recorded, Skype name, i reset the password again and then using this new 'Skype name', with the altered character, signed in. Voilà! It worked.
Everything says you cannot change your Skype name. Display name, yes. Skype name, no. A new account is required if you want a new Skype name. So how come my Skype name has changed? [Since at least April 2013, (maybe even earlier).]
i would appreciate a Skype employee's response, thank you. Then i can go into the details by email.
Cheers, daor

Here's the deal: I have more than one apple ID. Actually many of us do. @ mac dot com, dot me dot com, over the past decade there have been lots o "Apple IDs" (as they're called).
So one was attached to my file syncing, another attached to my iTunes money. I still do not know how my wife's name got in there (maybe "family sharing with ios8 is trying to take over?), but I was able to fix it at least by logging into different IDs on different machines.
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I changed the name of my server from vanroodewierda.rna.nl to rna.nl. I recreated my DNS setup (only used on the LAN) and everything works. I do have one problem, though: in Server.app, it is impossible to add/delete users and groups. (Yes, I can use Workgroup Manager, but this situation makes the system less robust, certainly, so it should not persist)
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4/7/13 1:07:55.046 PM kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 192.168.2.86:56402 for krbtgt/[email protected]
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@John & MrHoffMan,
thanks for replying.
- I know about the split-horizon DNS, it is by design so that, say, mail.rna.nl on the LAN resolves to the same machine as on the WAN and people can take their laptops anywhere and mail 'just works'.
I tried this in Server.app (last night also). I now changed from rna.nl to rna.nl to vanroodewierda.rna.nl and back to rna.nl. (I did this because a change to the same might be ignored by some services and I wanted to force them). In the system log I notice (esp. the first 4 lines):
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The title of your webpage just needs to be changed and nothing else.A Title of your web page is what appears on google findings and it is the title that appears on the top most bar of browser window. On the top most bar of browser is written apple - support. and this is what will appear on google findings. 'Apple - support'
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