[brudgers]

My random advice from the internet:

In the context of the other recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011012 This course of action should run by a lawyer.

Overall, framing this as a purely business matter rather than one of morals/ethics/justice might be useful. My intuition is that there is money set aside to purchase the domain and a timeline for acquiring it. If there are millions of dollars for a law suit with uncertain outcomes, there is even more for a certain quick outcome.

Anyway, there's nothing to be gained by treating matters as personal or evil regardless of what they might be.

Good luck.

[under_siege]

Yes, you are right. Ultimately it's just business.

The research I've done tells me it would be hard to grab my domain given that I've been doing business under this brand for nearly 30 years. Not a huge business, but that's not important.

This doesn't mean that they can't make me spend money on lawyers and just burn me down to the ground as a potentially cheaper strategy to make me cave. Not sure what to think about this possibility.