Originally Posted by Domain Diva

I agree, im also sure you know how difficult and expensive even for a trademark holder it is to use legal means to obtain domains that are used in a different industry and have no connection in any shape or form to the trademark holders business.

if I wanted to protect a trademark or even a nice domain/brand that had value to me the first thing i would do is at least invest what maybe $500 bucks ? in the main extensions to avoid the bigger expenses later in litigation , plus I would look at them as part of the investment in my name.

Of course this is just how I would do it.