I don't like the idea of taking names from people who are otherwise maintaining the requirements for the name simply because someone else has a trademark for it

I don't like the idea of taking names from people who are otherwise maintaining the requirements for the name simply because someone else has a trademark for it. Also, multiple companies can have the same trademark in different industries (not to mention different countries). Why not just raise the price for domains? If the fee were $25 or even $50/year, a lot of people (including myself) would drop domains we weren't using. And that's still a pretty low bar for any name that is even slightly valuable to the domain name owner.