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Kim,

I have a group on Yahoo with over 4800 members I’d like to transfer to
Groups .io. However somebody has already take the name.

Technically that's not a problem - in the transfer there's no requirement that the group name in Groups.io match that of the Y!Group.

So you could take this as your opportunity to improve the group's name, were that something you would have considered were it not for the disruption.

I can’t get a response from the owner. Is there any way I can get that
name so it can be retained for the transfer from Yahoo?

I doubt it, not without that owner's cooperation.

If group membership is open (or even if restricted) I'd probably join that group and then send to the +owner address again. That's because, unlike Yahoo, mods/owners in Groups.io have an option for what +owner messages to receive, and that owner may have chosen not to receive +owner messages from non-members.

Another thing you could try, as a member, is posting to the group itself. Particularly if the group is moderated, or new-member moderated, you may be able to get the owner's attention in their Pending Messages list.

The venue of last resort would be [email protected] but, absent some type of trademark situation or a similar violation of the TOS by that group's owner, I think the answer is likely to be "first come, first served".

Shal


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