Seems like an irrelevant comment. He's not doing anything publicly with the domain and never has.
And: If he were now to start doing something with the domain related to either tapping (as in on touch screens) or typing he could reasonably be said to be creating confusion for my customers. So what part of my comment seemed arrogant? Or do you just not like the cut of my jib?
There are two sides of this: the law, and what is fair. The law is what matters for practical purposes but you are objecting on the basis of fairness. I can dig that, but I disagree.
Looking at this from the perspective of what I personally feel is fair:
My product is TapTyping. My product has been the only product on the market called TapTyping for two years.
It seems likely that any new product that came on the market named TapTyping would be in some way similar to my existing product.*
If new product also called TapTyping came along that was in some way similar to my existing product, this product would benefit from the name recognition and mind share my existing product at my existing product's expense. That would not be fair.
And finally: Domain names are a mechanism to apply a label to a resource in such a way that the when a person uses that label to access a particular resource, that person gets the resource that they were expecting. At least that's the ideal, right?
So the way I see it, no other resource on the internet is currently being accessed with the label TapTyping and all new resources that potentially could appear on the internet using this label would infringe on my existing product.
So yes: I feel entitled to the domain.
I'd love to try to see it from your perspective. How do you see it?
* Sure: someone could come out with TapTyping lawn care and in this case I wouldn't object. But in the case of this particular name it doesn't seem likely.
And: If he were now to start doing something with the domain related to either tapping (as in on touch screens) or typing he could reasonably be said to be creating confusion for my customers. So what part of my comment seemed arrogant? Or do you just not like the cut of my jib?