[jacquesm]

There are now several 'known' ways in which this can happen, all of them seem to involve a US court at some point in time so if you're running a legitimate business on a .com and you acquired the domain as first registrant from a registrar.

If you acquired that domain through the 'aftermarket', especially if it had lapsed we now know that if that entity should ever go bankrupt there is a potential problem.

And even in that case I assume you could object against this in some way (though the story does not detail any of that so far, we'll have to wait to see how it all plays out).

I'll be following this quite closely, to say that I'm surprised here is an understatement.

There is even potential for a chain of bankruptcies causing repeated clawback of the same domain!

[turbojerry]

Would it be possible to transfer the name initially to a front company, resell it on to the intended company with a clause that says it cannot be clawed back and then bankrupt the first so creating a legal firewall?