Twitter files cybersquatting complaint against twiter.com
Twitter has launched legal action against the owner of Twiter.com for cashing in on the growing popularity of the micro blogging site – seven years after the domain was first registered.
Users who inadvertently miss out Twitter’s second ‘t’ are presently redirected to a site which mimics Twitter’s on style and claims to offer high value tech prizes for users as a “birthday gift” – if they sign up to a premium rate SMS text service.
To win its case however Twitter must prove that the site was created in bad faith however, a task which is likely to prove difficult as Twiter was registered by its current owners in 2004, two years prior to Twitter’s launch in 2006.
Counting in Twitter’s favour however is the fact that the domain most recently switched ownership in April, when the present copycat design debuted.