You don't have a -lot- of options, however having incorporated the company does give you some footing. You can attempt to get the site via ICANN as Adam suggested. If you have a legitimate business reason and the original owner doesn't, and is refusing to sell or asking an outrageous price, you can apply to be given the site.
This is to stop people doing things like buying iphone.com when they hear apple is creating a new product and then trying to sell to Apple for several million$ or exploiting their trademark.
Make sure you have registered yoru trademark name by the way! It will go a long way to helping your case.
As an aside I HATE, LOATHE AND DETEST those ad farm and address resellers. I have been cruising for good site names for months and at least 90% of my ideas already have an ad farm sitting on them or a $10,000 price tag. They chew up good site names and give nothing of real quality. They only make revenue because they have deadended someone and offer them a way out of their lame site via the ads. Which they then charge the company who they are advertising for.
It's like forcing someone down an alley, making them to look at a billboard and then charging the billboard owner for this person you forced into looking at an ad they have no real interest in, they just want to get away from you.
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