Liz, the key in the Madonna case is here:
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The panel said Parisi, who is a Web site developer, had no trademark right to the name Madonna and failed to prove legitimate interest in the Internet domain name that he had registered in bad faith.
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Is it bad faith to register pornstarname-xxx.com and direct traffic to a program that promotes this star?
Most of the cases (including the Madonna one) are specific for cybersquatters using the traffic for other purposes than promoting the star / product / etc. In many cases they offer to sell the domain to the trademark / copyright holder, which is a clear indication of bad faith.
Some of the domains in this lawsuit have been used in bad faith, other may not have. I think that this will be very telling about the future of domain names as a whole. Perhaps we should all just use IP addresses instead?