| Well, quite a sprinkle of random responses here. To clarify, I was ASKING for a reason... so please take that into consideration here. In addition to that, I have not told them about the trademark, so no "threatening" emails were sent.
Also, I doubt this person regged the name for the fact that they like it, then parked it at a known domain parking company. My research shows the same person owns around 5,000 more domains too. He is definitely in the domain business.
But lets take an example like this... (pretend that this is a present day scenario)
Joe Smith gets word that "Bill Gates" (the local high-school computer nerd) is starting a computer company, and he plans to call it Microsoft. He has like 200 dollars to his name at the time, and obviously doesn't realize the importance of a trademark. So Joe Smith, another computer nerd with domain knowledge, goes and registers "Microsoft.com" because he believes Bill will be successful someday and want to buy his domain.
This is a mighty good speculation, but in the end, Bill Gates is the one who has to buy the domain at the five figure amount.
Even though the domain was registered before the trademark in this example, does that mean that Joe Smith can demand a five figure number for the domain that is key to his business operations?
I appreciate the responses thus far. Any more insight or knowledge would be beneficial to me. | 
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