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I can't get into specific details due to a disclosure agreement - but years ago we owned a bdsm/fetish feeder domain with a certain adjective word as part of the domain name.
Despite the fact it was all our original content, website design and in no way resembled or had anything to do with the other company (other than a simple word)...their in-house attorney calls me one day to prattle on about trademark infringement and threatened to sue us.
I initially asked if he was having a slow day in the office...then eventually told him to go fuck himself. So he calls back a second time to announce he's sending a C&D letter. I hung up a second time - and contacted our own attorney.
He suggested we make an offer to sell them the domain - so I let him broker the deal. We eventually settled on a 5-digit price (far more than twice the annual revenue) and signed it over.
They put a re-direct on it...used it as a feeder page for a few years. And then we laughed last year when I noticed the domain expired without renewal.
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