Originally Posted by
ekaterina
"But, since it looks as if we are going to have an extra few hours, consulting with a lawyer might very well occupy some time you'd otherwise spend spinning wheels here "
A good lawyer would say - first try to work it out quickly and with no legal fees by stating what the name is and see if whoever took it might be less attracted to it than you are, and perfectly willing to give it up. Most if not all of the good ones actually have the client's interest in mind and aren't just grinding for legal fees. I speak as somewhat of an expert in the area.
Having tried to get favorite names on all of the servers when I came here years ago - I can assure you that many good names are taken on *every* server and so whatever name you want - likely more than one other person has it somewhere. Maybe getting it before you did originally. For that matter I can assure you that many *bad* names are equally taken by many people - perhaps even more so,