How sad is to see big corporations using lawsuits as a tool to drive the price down of what they want, or as a weapon to destroy or bend a competitor. If they wanted the sites why didnt they buy them before. I think consumers should asociated in big groups that lobby politicians the same way that the big corporations do. And have lawyers that will defend our interest in a general manner (when a new law or rule that will affect us) or in specific cases when the big corporations attack a small company or person. If the behaviour of those corporations is shady then we consumers should judge personally and punish the corporation by not buying or using their products.

Please edit my comment my english is not very good

If the dude was offering an email service, or anything remotely similar to the stuff Microsoft does, I can see the problem. But he is offering exercise equipment. There is no possible way that a person smart enough(dumb enough?) to go to the Microsoft site would think that they had gotten there. 100% of those people would realize they'd made a typo and it would be their choice to leave. Free advertising because of Microsoft? Absolutely. But since there's no reason to assume he's connected to the Microsoft brand, no reason for him to need to leave. At the worst, he should have to put up a disclaimer that says he is not affiliating with the company he is "squatting."

These kinds of lawsuits are just silly, and I don't see how it isn't extortion to perform this lawsuit, except possibly for the disclaimer I mentioned.

Disneyland, indeed, and Microsoft is the evil Captain Hook. Run, Peter, run!