One T, Twiter Parking Space

First off, no I did not misspell Twitter in the title.
What I’m referring to is twiter.com, which I coincidentally did find because I misspelled Twitter (two t) in the address.

Twiter.com (one t) is what I like to call a Parking Space (I can’t imagine I’m the first person to use this term, but this is what I call it): a generic website used to hold a space where someone might like to park their website, or in this case, the claimed URL of a site spelled one letter off.

I noticed a funny thing when I visited the one t site; I was legitimately confused into thinking I was where I should be. I imagine this was for three reasons,

  1. I was expecting to go to Twitter
  2. I am used to twitter failing and reverting back to some less styled form of HTML and broken CSS
  3. The blatant use of an existing Twitter illustration in the middle of the page.

This raises an issue…
Is this a trademark or copyright violation?
Well, yes, it creates consumer confusion

But if Twitter were to act, it would raise a conflict.

Twitter already encourages the use of its icons and imagery as part of its button-oriented-proliferation across any number of blogs and websites. So, to attack one site, would set a new standard of how they approach violators.

So…

What do you think about twiter.com (that’s one t for clarity)?

Should Twitter bye the parking space,
sue the holding company,
ignore the problem?