What would you have done? Put yourself in that situation. You are discussing domain names, and you go squat one up. Not any domain, but the one that the project actually wanted to take. Would you have kept it almost a year and told everyone afterwards? Would you have donated it to the project? Would you at least have explained your reasons why you acted the way you did? I know it's his domain, and there's no legal discussion here. I'm just struggling to see any good reasons why he did what he did.