Hi Will,
Be Strong nothing is going to happen to your domain. If it is 3 letter it is more difficult to prove their point. If every company out there starts doing this we as domainers and developers will be left with nothing.
Fight for it to your hearts content. How many domains they(Companies like this one who have no or enough regard for other businesses always try to steal domains under the trademark law. They had sunrise period. They are reckless that they took it for granted and then come back later and threaten!) will steal? 1, 2, 3? you will remain the winner over all.
Whatever the domain in question is based on your OP, I wish they loose the case if it goes to WIPO and waste their money.
Also parking is not SIN it is a viable business, It will never be possible to make productive websites on all existing domain names. To sustain and excel parking is needed when you are talking 100's of domains. That is not the idea also, look at the fortune 500 companies and the number of domains they bought, they are either 404 or forwarded. I think instead of F'ing around people these companies should try to make an offer if they are concerned(When a corporation with huge resources can overlook their TM as they say and come back at their leisure, how the hell a small guy self police himself and run away from opportunities?) How come a random 3 character is TM unless it is a big brand!(if it is, unfortunately we are on the losing end but that's alright this is not the only name you own!)
In my opinion TM on Random and generic domains should be limited to TLD or CCTLD, the corporation or the individual owns. It is not like you go get a domain in one extension, show it or try to make it a brand and then later F*ck everybody else(Owners of the same domain in other extensions). This is Crazy and not right. It might have worked when people are semi dumb without Internet. With the advent of Internet everyone is an intellectual in their own sense and they must remain free to do anything under the Fair Law(law should be more fair to startups and beginners)
If this Company is too concerned why not they do pay per click advertising? like their competitors? and show up on your parked page, so that the People visiting your parked page have choice to click on which ad. Instead of doing that they are whining like a Baby
PITY. This is an age of Technology where everyone can be productive and can make fortunes. Why should this opportunity be wasted for a Crooked Corporation. All I am trying to say is If you are a Corporation compete, don't whine and try to find loop holes in the law to F*ck us(yes that is derogatory but why the F*ck are you trying to loot a small guy?) Law will catch up to these companies, already WIPO is framing tight IP laws for both sides it is a matter of time.
It is nothing new that they make Laws 1000's of pages worth, how in the world I interpret all of it? The guys who interpret it(dispute panel members, most of them think they are living in 1920's, when I say that They really live in 2012 with all the comforts nice car, big house, cushion bed and smartphone; but when it comes to dispute resolution they are vintage antique style old timers! they can't do good to us in general) I know most of the decisions are fair but why even few should loose? They should know what goes through a persons brain when he looses to some Corporation all while being honest. It may put a person in depression for life. This is serious issue.
You didn't mentioned the name you don't have to, I myself own 2 TM domains. One is mayspace.com and the other is tmz.in(I am aware of only these 2, I don't care what anybody claims I will fight it out and remain a warrior even I loose, I will remain a proud man). I learnt over time I am not a saint and I have not seen a real one. tmz.in in my mind means, "Times we live in and Time Zones" so let's see what future holds. AOL registered TMZ.co.in after me. So don't worry, just chill and carry on
by God's grace we have enough that one or two issues are like dust.
Good Luck,
Nanda.
PS: Will, I expanded on your issue a bit because the issue came up. Hope you understand thank you. Also I am upset for quite a few days now, unhappy about facebook trying to TM BOOK, some already took some words that are universal human assets, I can fight but this kind of issues where common sense should work is not working
90% of the time, sad because I am a human too, they are my kind portraying themselves as innovators but behaving badly; part of life it is