domain name

Thanks, but I'm not following what you're saying. What I want to know is how to take back a name that a twitter user is using because it is the registered domain name for my company. How do I go about that?

From the first time that your company use this domain name you should have the date if any other company uses your name after the date that you are the first to use the name your proof is in the date that you started using your domain name, in court the person that use the name the longest usually wins the fight

If it is registered you are the owner, legally reply to the person using the name and ask them to stop using the name because it is . registered to you

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

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!

Twitter gave us the name in question. Thanks.

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

thanks,
Dave

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