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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

January 29, 2009

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I'm watching a Twitter exchange right now (will keep it nameless) where folks are trying to figure out who owns the twitter name for their company. I did a quick search on a number of well known companies by going to "http://www.twitter.com/companyname" only to find that many of the names have already been taken by others who obviously aren't part of the organization who's name they are using. Obviously this is reminiscent of the early days of the Internet when legal battles ensued over domain names.

I hope Twitter has staffed up its legal department to handle the probable actions by those seeking to reclaim their names.

About the Author(s)

Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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