There seem to be a lot of posters here who don't think it's a problem to register domain names with trademarks in them. This is a cautionary tale: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/07/apple-domain-names/ Note that the ICANN UDRP is international, so being outside the US is no protection.
You can still get away with it you just have to bounce the owners of the domain around countries a bit That way it delays it, but they always get you in the end.
Yeah, and the registrar can lock the domain/s to prevent that upon receipt of the UDRP notice. Not to mention there are cases where changing ownership is used as a further sign of bad faith against the domain owner. As you said, though, they get them in the end. Heh.
But look at the good side, if google lost hes case against Groovle then this is not so bad. Ok this guy that used apple trademarks of course have use it. But when keywords are way known, like common every day used words then you cant take trademark on them, its like someone could take trademark on air and life words, of course Apple have invented ipod, iphone and have rights for that words. BTW google lost to groovle but took more than 60 domains, most of the time big companies take good domains and domains that are in bad faith to original companie. I personally have 1 trademark domain and its same as original companies but different extension, i own it for over a 2 years, but maybe this time i let it go... (its parked and its for sale if anyone is interested, hehe)