In a blog post responding to CRIDO's campaign, Minds + Machines CEO
Anthony Van Couvering evoked the language of the Occupy Wall Street
protesters, calling the ANA "the 1%" and saying that "ANA and
CRIDO may control 99% of the money, but they have about 1% of the
facts. [Nicely putten!]" He cited a study done by his company
that put the cost of companies defending against cybersquatting on
look-alike domain names under the gTLD plan at a total of $870,000 a
year for all trademark holders, or about 44 cents per
trademark registered in the US.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/terrified-of-cybersquatting-businesses-battle-plan-for-more-top-level-domains.ars
Nicolas