I am not a lawyer, but I always thought the issue of selling domain names 
came in several flavors:

1: You have a domain name with no logical connection to you, and a big 
company has a trademark on it:

        You lose, just give it to them!

2: You have a domain name with a logical connection and the big company has 
a trademark, but it isn't 'famous' and you
        are not: competing with or confusing people about the big company:

       If things are right, they lose, you get to keep it!

3: You have a neat domain name, using it in a business and somebody else 
wants it but doesn't have 'trademark' in it:

      You and other party can negotiate an agreeable price, they can't force 
you to sell (unless they establish a trademark in it first...)

4: You have a neat domain name which you are holding on to just because it 
is neat and somebody else wants it but doesn't have a trademark in it.

      I am not sure what happens in this case.

Bob Ammerman

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