In reply to John Greg.

No one said Chris has the right to own the domain, where Matt is breaking all rules is by forwarding traffic to another WordPress entity. You can't do that plan and simple.

Go register anything with WordPress in a domain and you'll be contacted by Automattic lawyers to cease and desist. That is what their counsel is supposed to do.

Thesis (whether you like Chris or not) has been a long established theme/software brand and no other company or individual can use Thesis within the same or similar industry. Themeshaper definitely is in a shared industry.

Matt is welcome to use Thesis.com to start selling term papers, dryer lent or broken Christmas ornaments and Chris can't do squat about it.

I'm sure Matt's VCs have deep enough pockets to buy Genesis.com (another generic word) but Brian and StudioPress are not in their sites.