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Thanks Joyce - I've emailed Twitter and also logged a support issue. – Dave, on May 14, 2008 00:38

Dave,

We emailed support@twitter.com. Since the account had been created a long time ago but never used, they passed it to us. I don't know what time period they wait & I have no idea what they would do if it were an active account.

Good luck

I suggest you try logging a support issue at http://twitter.com/help – mdy, on May 13, 2008 17:42

Joyce,
Can you let others know who you spoke to at Twitter to resolve this? I have the exact same problem.

thanks,
Dave

Twitter gave us the name in question. Thanks.

Hi there. Could you kindly explain your problem a little further?

Did you mean you wanted to use the user id lovelondon and someone else is using it already?

Domain name registration does not equate to intellectual property ownership. Just because you own the domain name ‘myreallyneatodomain.com’ does not mean ‘My Really Neato Domain’ is yours.

For it to be yours it would have to be a trade mark – even then you have little protection unless it was a registered as a trademark.

If you think you do indeed own the intellectual property rights to the name in question, then you might want to serve a cease and desist notification on Twitter – then they’d notify the user and s/he could give up the usage of the username. Or, s/he could also contest the C&D notice and you’d have to take it to the court. In that eventuality you’d have to prove that s/he was illegally using your trademark (assuming you have one registered) and that there was real chance of confusion between the twitters users account and your business/name to the extent that the general public can not tell the difference.

If you do own the trademark, you are best to do this as if you do not enforce your trademark and protect if from infringement you could end up losing the rights to the trademark.

But as I said before, domain name registration does not equate to IP ownership!

You ARE using my fu@@in domain name - lovelondon