Originally Posted by feijai

This makes no sense at all. According to ICANN rules, this isn't a domain name ownership issue: it's a trademark issue. If David Hon owns the trademark "dahon", then he can perfectly legally rip "dahon.com" away from Tern. If Tern owns the trademark "dahon", then "dahonbikes" is too similar a trademark and David Hon can't use it. Either way, either David has the rights to *both* dahon.com and dahonbikes.com, or he has the rights to *neither* of them. It's can't be that Tern controls one and David controls the other.