If you had a QPR domain name or handle the club wanted

[Sandy Flash]

QPR can apply to Twitter to get the name @qpr transferred to them if they so wish. They can claim that someone is running it when it should belong to the club. Based on what I've seen before I think they have a reasonable case to get it. If it was @barclays or @sainsburys and it was an individual the organisations in question would be within their rights to get them if someone was running the handles to promote Barclays or Sainsburys related things. Same thing for QPR.

QPR don't seem to have done that though. Why?

It's a good question but shouldn't even have come to that, I can understand a fan taking the tag and protecting from others from stealing. Our own fan has done it to the club, it cost nothing and he's holding it from them.

[Hitman34]

Sell it is a proper knob eds answer. Jerks that live on the internet grabbing up domains in other peoples names or company titles or trademarks to try and get a bit of attention or a tenner. Well done, take a bow nankids.

spot farking on.

[Hitman34]

kev, you made a good post then went into meltdown mode.

ffs man just chill brv

[brightonr]

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QPR can apply to Twitter to get the name @qpr transferred to them if they so wish. They can claim that someone is running it when it should belong to the club. Based on what I've seen before I think they have a reasonable case to get it. If it was @barclays or @sainsburys and it was an individual the organisations in question would be within their rights to get them if someone was running the handles to promote Barclays or Sainsburys related things. Same thing for QPR.

QPR don't seem to have done that though. Why?

I believe that the situation was resolved in the end and the club can now use it.

Very unsavoury episode. How ironic though, that the bloke who used to question the charity donations made by this site, to the point of even having a thread detailing them and updated regularly, should find himself embroiled in such a mess.

As others have said, if it were this site for example that had been involved, he would have been more than happy to "discuss" the matter.

I wonder if he owns @double standards too.

[Stanley]

The matter was discussed in detail at the last Fan Sites meeting with the club in September.

From the minutes:

Date: Wednesday 24th September 2014

Venue: Loftus Road Stadium

Agenda

-QPR Player / You Tube
-New Matchday App
-Former Player Recognition
-@QPR handle
-Players Social Media Conduct
-London Call-In
-#weRtogether campaign
-Lower Loft
-New Stadium PR
-AOB

In attendance

Fan Site reps: WATRB, qprdot.org, QPR Report, Indy Rs, QPRnet and QPRnot606.

QPR media team: Ian Taylor, Paul Morrissey and David Scriven.


...*@QPR handle

A discussion about the handling of the @QPR twitter handle with QPR Report

QPR - Admit we could have handled the situation better, and IT & AH apologised to Mike / QPR Report.

QPR - Contact at Twitter on @QPR: "It is a great benefit to football clubs to have short, easily identifiable @handles, so that fans understand at a glance how to interact with their club before, during and after matches. It is not enough for QPR to just continue with the excellent, on-Twitter conversations they have. In order to reach more fans, they need to promote the @handle and relevant hashtags in and around Loftus Road. Those calls to action - on the dugout, for example - will be all the stronger if they point to @QPR, which is the identity fans would expect the club to own on Twitter."

QPR - The @QPR account has only tweeted four times since July 29th 2014.

QPR - Disappointed that we couldn’t work together as the point of these meetings is to work together.

QPR - Understand now that we could have retrieved the situation after initial fall-out, but didn’t feel like that at the time. If we could have been tipped off that it was still retrievable, it would have been useful to know. Surprised conversations were taking place between members of the group, and no-one actually let us know. If we didn’t do enough in the end to satisfy him, why couldn’t one of the guys say to us on the quiet, it would have been good to have been told by others involved ‘Listen, he’s not happy but if you do X, Y and Z, you might be able to sort this out amicably’?

Fan Sites - It was raised that the vast majority of people have never heard Mike's side of the story, which seems unfortunate in terms of getting a more overall and balanced understanding of the issue. Fans will inevitably jump to their own conclusions otherwise. It is noted however that he did offer to share his correspondence with the club to our group, but in the end it was decided against doing so because this wouldn't have allowed enough time for other matters on the agenda.

Fan Sites - QPR Report’s representative stated that he and others from the forum encouraged Mike to hand over the handle to the club.

http://www.wearetherangersboys.com/forum/showthread.php?183462-Fans-Sites-Meeting-%96-September-2014-%96-Minutes

[Kirill]

This:
QPR - Admit we could have handled the situation better, and IT & AH apologised to Mike / QPR Report.

[IsleworthRanger]

This:
QPR - Admit we could have handled the situation better, and IT & AH apologised to Mike / QPR Report.

"Fan Sites - QPR Report’s representative stated that he and others from the forum encouraged Mike to hand over the handle to the club."

[Hubble]

"Fan Sites - QPR Report’s representative stated that he and others from the forum encouraged Mike to hand over the handle to the club."

But he still hasn't done it?

[West Acton]

As said in another thread geezer is a rear cavity

[loneranger]

Sell it is a proper knob eds answer. Jerks that live on the internet grabbing up domains in other peoples names or company titles or trademarks to try and get a bit of attention or a tenner. Well done, take a bow nankids.

Nankids always had natty knitwear.

[Kirill]

"Fan Sites - QPR Report’s representative stated that he and others from the forum encouraged Mike to hand over the handle to the club."

That's cute. It is easy to encourage somebody else to give something up, what have the encouragers got to lose?

[Sandy Flash]

That's cute. It is easy to encourage somebody else to give something up, what have the encouragers got to lose?

The point is that it cost him nothing to register that name tag and states it's all non profit, so why hold it?

[Kirill]

The point is that it cost him nothing to register that name tag and states it's all non profit, so why hold it?

That's his business. The club got all upset and unnecessarily pushy while asking this very same question. My advice is not to get emotional when you don't get a reply that would satisfy your curiosity and sense of justice. People will have their reasons and they don't have to explain themselves to all and sundry.

[MYU]

That's his business. The club got all upset and unnecessarily pushy while asking this very same question. My advice is not to get emotional when you don't get a reply that would satisfy your curiosity and sense of justice. People will have their reasons and they don't have to explain themselves to all and sundry.

Isn't he one of the first ones looking for answers, he should take some of your advice.

[Kirill]

Isn't he one of the first ones looking for answers, he should take some of your advice.

Perhaps. I am surprised at the amount of publicity he received in this situation, it and he are not that important surely?