Parody is not really impersonation and Future Snack =/= Future Stack =/= Future Shack etc.

If they have a problem with it they shouldn't have named the conference after his identity to begin with.

It's first come first serve in my book and he definitely got the domain to prove it.

Isn't it like branding/marketing 101 get the twitter handle, get the domain, etc?

I used the name "Unreal" as an internet handle before the game Unreal came out. First come, first serve - I guess I should have gone after them.

fair use (parody relevance) only comes into play if it starts getting treated as a legal thing

additionally it was more than enough for someone to mistake that account as the conference account at a glance

http://futurestack.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Scree... from this you can see at the time he was using the FutureStack image itself (the line just below the logo is from the original, not his edit), so presumably at the time he got suspended, he was using the original FS logo

I think that's definitely his mock logo, not the original. The original logo is anti-aliased and thin, not in that blocky 8-bit style. You can also see the squared-off "NeoFossil" logo above, not the rounded New Relic logo. I think he probably cut it out of a different mock splash page he made that had a line starting with "changing..."

> Isn't it like branding/marketing 101 get the twitter handle, get the domain, etc?

Dropbox was at getdropbox.com for a while before they were able to purchase the dropbox.com domain.