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None of the examples you posted match the claim -- all were foreign companies expanding their markets, not companies who purchased the "wrong" TLD then scrambled to grab the .com to protect their brands. In fact, particularly in the case of a well-known domain industry player like SEDO, the UDRP would have gotten them that name for a song if it was being used to deliberately dilute their brand.
Again, as I've said in subsequent posts, I'm not trying to make an idiotic claim like "no benefit to having a .com" Just saying that actual brand leach is much more common on gTLDs than on meaningful hacks (ie. you can throw out Dances.com vs. Danc.es since the latter is a fucking stupid name no one should register for any reason) and that niceties like monetisable type-in traffic are pretty much a thing of the past, that are not likely to return to the domain business anytime soon.
Frank
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