Just not using a trademark is not possible. You must use and actively defend it in order to keep it. An unused trademark can be reported for deletion by competitors.
Otherwise anyone with money could just trademark billions of auto-generated names and wait for someone to start a business, then selling them a name.
A domain is not a trademark. If you own a trademark, you can sue the holder of the corresponding domain to get it. The domain grabbing business works not by trademark grabbing, but by offering the domain a little cheaper (and quicker) than the price of the lawsuit necessary to get it after trademark registration. And of course by grabbing non-trademarkable generic domains, especially in the dot com era.
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Musk won't give up the Twitter trademark however. They just won't use it.
Just not using a trademark is not possible. You must use and actively defend it in order to keep it. An unused trademark can be reported for deletion by competitors.
Otherwise anyone with money could just trademark billions of auto-generated names and wait for someone to start a business, then selling them a name.
Welcome to the dotcom bubble. You're describing literally what's going on with the domain parking industry.
A domain is not a trademark. If you own a trademark, you can sue the holder of the corresponding domain to get it. The domain grabbing business works not by trademark grabbing, but by offering the domain a little cheaper (and quicker) than the price of the lawsuit necessary to get it after trademark registration. And of course by grabbing non-trademarkable generic domains, especially in the dot com era.
I mean essentially not using it. Just keep some placeholder going.
Realistically it's not complicated or difficult.