>>using high-powered lawyers to trick an inocent kid into loosing his domain name.
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>What makes you think the kid is so innocent? If his name were phonetically the same as Microsoft, maybe, but he intentionally added "soft" to his name ("Mike Rowe") to create the confusion. If it were mikerowesoftware.com or just mikerowe.com, I'd think Microsoft was crossing the line, but this kid intentionally picked a name that sounds the same as Microsoft.
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>Tamar

Well of course he did it intentionally - but what kind of idiot is going to confuse "mikerowesoft" with "microsoft"??? I say "innocent" because his name IS, after all, Mike Rowe. I don't see how a phonetically similar domain that is spelled so differently and would be void of any type of confusion with the other would suddenly exclude this kid from the "innocent" category. Perhaps a better way to look at the kid (and what he did) would be "harmless".