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Posted By: davidcycleback

Dan, I don't beleive you were required to automatically give up all of your domain names before you even used them. Just because Porsche's representative told you something, doesn't mean it was correct or that he beleived it was correrct (it's called intimidation). I don't know how you were going to use the sites, but, even Porsche's own argument (celebrity domain use) showed that there was a way for you to keep and use a Porsche-related domain.
If you had porschefanclub.com for your non-commercial Porsche fan club, and Porsche wanted the domain, they would have been free to offer to buy it.

In defense of the Porsche's of the world, there are people in the past who would buy a company's domain name and say the company is free to purchase it ... for $100,000,000. These days, a person would be able to be compensated reasonably for the domain name, but very far from millions of dollars.

The PSAsucks.com case is bit tricky (free speach), though obviously is a commercial venture. This is obvious due to the extremely high asking price (sale price of a domain is relevant legally) and that it is advertised as "unlimited financial potential." Both sides would have legal arguments in this case, though I would guess PSA would win.