redirected it to the blog post?

already doing that

not if you want to make some money out of it..you need to justify you own domain because your have business tied to it and nothing to do with their brand..and then only you can hold it/may be later sell it..careful, arrington is from domain industry so it is tough party on other end ..so be smart in how you handle.. (assuming you want money..) if not then it is pretty easy just send email

I'd agree with this guy. WIPO is ridiculously quick to snipe away your domain name and give it to someone with a trademark if you don't have a legitimate business or use for the name.

I would highly recommend creating at least some fake company or intention out of the page so you can say you wanted the domain for something else. With a name like "Crunch-Pad" I'd suggest making it a simple Web 2.0 to-do list like pat.io.

At least that way you could let them buy it off you if they were interested.

well

a) I registered the domain about 6 months before Techcrunch started calling the thing crunchpad, so they don't really have any claim to the name. In fact it wasn't them who came up with the name itself in the first place, it was one of the comments.

b) Plenty of companies make the same mistake of failing to register a domain name. If Apple didn't sue over something like iPhone and Dell over Adamo, I doubt there is much of a leg to stand on. + There is no trademark yet for crunchpad

Funnily enough, that story was posted on Techcrunch only a few weeks ago: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/28/dell-belatedly-buys-ada...

c) I don't really plan to bend Arrington over the barrel on this. But I think it'll play better if he contacts me, instead of me just emailing out of the blue offering the domain. Since we all know how unlikely it is to get a response from Techcrunch