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Steve, here's a serious speculation about the "why" of tawnee.com.
If I woke up one happy morning and found that domain in my portfolio, of course my first impulse would be a redirect-with-affiliate-link to you.
My *second* impulse, however, would be "Whoa!" And I'd think twice. It's well known that you are appropriately zealous in protecting your trademarks. And, although it's fairly obvious that your Tawnee Stone trademarks aren't so broad as to sweep tawnee.com into your tent, I would worry, as guideongallery suggests above, that associating tawnee.com with Tawnee Stone might create for you a trademark argument where none existed before. Given the rather random and sporadic results that can come out of ICANN, I can easily imagine deciding that the affiliate revenue wasn't worth the risk of even a frivolous trademark claim. It is, after all, a valuable domain for many purposes.
Of course, my *third* reaction would be "It's BONE STUPID not to sell Tawnee Stone on this domain, and I'm sure Steve would agree. I better shoot him an email seeing if he'll give me assurances that he won't try to gank my domain when I start linking it to him." Like you say, win/win all the way.
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