Whitey - 11:19 am on Jan 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

There are plenty of issues around intellectual property surrounding domain names which are far too and complex to go into here.

Such things as "multi national trading identity" , "patented product" related to domains and the list goes on and on.

But the subject can get costly to defend if the lawyers put a case to you. If you loose , you may have costs awarded against you, and if it involves lawyers you can be sure they would like to keep the bills high for their clients through recovery from you.

Although I have sympathy with you, your first step is to say :

"What's this site worth to me"?

Is it worth keeping or transferring it's content in some way to another domain that i can own?

Effort , value and risk to you is what you need to consider if your going to defend this.