The Word "Tweets"...

[roweash3]

This is all hypothetical, I don't own, nor am I planning to buy any of these domain names, just wondering...

If a domainer owned tweets.co.uk, funnytweets.co.uk, businesstweets.co.uk, etc... They then built a website based around promoting peoples/businesses tweets. As the word "tweet" is a trademark of twitter, would there be any copyright issues with twitter?

Does it make a difference if the domainer doesn't try to make money from the website?

Alternatively (i know it's a bad domain), what about birdtweets.co.uk, a website based on the sounds of birds?

 

[Aaron Clifford]

https://twitter.com/logo

 

[AssetDomains]

I'm far from an expert but I'd say

tweets.co.uk generic word so safe as long as you stay away from there trademark class. They couldnt touch if for instance you had a website all about bird calls on it

funnytweets.co.uk
businesstweets.co.uk
As they would likely only be used with tere service they could easily take these of you / sue you if they wished

birdtweets.co.uk safe as with the tweets.co.uk example above