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If you actually caused say, reputational damage, you could be stuck with a lawsuit for more than just turning over the domain.


People have gotten in serious hot water over Internet traffic that was accidentally sent to them. Owning someone else's trademark as a domain name seems liable to increase the risk of that happening. Even if you aren't up to no good, you've now placed the onus on yourself of proving that you weren't, whereas if you weren't squatting on an obvious TM domain that wouldn't be true.


> People have gotten in serious hot water over Internet traffic that was accidentally sent to them.

You've piqued my curiosity. Any examples to share?




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