How is it ethical?

[slybird353]

This whole thing got me thinking, why would anyone go thru all the effort and cost to buy up a domain name that they most likely will never use.

I could only come up with a few,
They bought it up with the plan of "trying" to sell it to you at a later time, at a profit to them of course.
or,
They felt that you were going to be a threat to their own business.

Everything else I thought up just did not seem logical.

I can not figure it out myself. I know he was very concerned and talked often about the bottom falling out of the maple market. Maybe we are all threats?
Yesterday I was talking to Mark from Jasper's Sugarbush who own a sizable bush here in the UP. He was sure to let me know that if there was ever anything we needed durring season to give them a call and if they had it they would loan it free of charge. They have been on that farm for generations. We actually sell at the same farmers markets together. No threats there just two men trying to make a living. What a contrast huh?