Their hard nosed approach to "if you ignore it (this thread), it will go away" is the same hard nosed approach to their take it or leave it contract. At least they are consistent.
AFAIK?
To my knowledge, domains arent real estate, but Mr. Monte compared them to real estate.
Supreme court has ruled that domains are in fact real estate though. But I think that was for the purpose of income tax or something. Been a while since they commented on that. Time flies.