Originally Posted by Cyandin

If someone buys a domain, it's theirs - period. If a company is not smart enough to buy all variants of their domain up, or names that appear similar, then it's on them.

The arguments to the contrary are mostly those of big companies trying to bully the little guys out of good domain names.

I say it again - If you go to a registrar and they sell you an available domain, then it's yours incontrovertibly. The big guys can then suck it up and pay the new owner for it if they want it so bad.