Twitter late last week filed a UDRP complaint, notably its first ever since the company was founded, in an effort to obtain ownership over the (currently parked) domain name twittersearch.com &8211' as you can see here.

Obviously, Twitter is right to do this, since the domain is likely to cause some confusion, although we should note Twitter hasn&'t managed to secure a trademark for the term &8216'twitter&' in the United States so far, despite multiple attempts.

Update: my bad, they haven&'t had any success in getting a trademark on the word &8216'tweet&', but they do own the &8216'twitter&' trademark.

Twitter of course has a popular search product that bears the obvious name Twitter Search, so I&'d do the exact same thing if I were them.

That said, they took their sweet time to make the move &8211' twittersearch.com was first registered back in March 2007.

A quick WHOIS search reveals that the owner of the contested domain name has opted to hide his or her identity, and the domain name is currently inactive, leading to a placeholder page riddled with ads.

Next up, twitter-search.com

Update 2: DomainNameWire on &8216'Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch.com&'. Also, the owner is apparently Popvox, the same company that&'s behind TwitterVision.com.