CRIDO States Battle Against Fresh TLDs Won’t End January 12

Lawyer states it will battle on even following application window opens.

Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight (CRIDO), a fresh group formed to try to stall or can ICANN’s fresh top level domain name program, states it has more than two months to make a difference.

The application window for fresh top level domains opens January 12. But Doug Wood, Association of National Advertisers counsel, told World Trademark Review that it plans to battle the program even following that date:

While January marks the opening of the application window for gTLDs, Wood predicts the fight will indeed continue if ICANN presses ahead: “The internet is broken. There are serious security risks. Consumers are being bilked every single day. Brands are being hijacked every single day. There are very serious security issues. No matter what you think regarding this particular idea, no one can deny that adding hundreds more top-level domains will make these matters worse. So what we are saying to ICANN is ‘stop, take a breath and let’s talk regarding this’.

“And the reason ICANN ought to not roll forward is that, if they do, this movement will not go away. They will be under more spotlights and pressures if they say to the brand community that they don’t care. They can say ‘this is our sandbox and, if you don’t want to play in it, get out’. But that isn’t going to happen. They ought to realise how serious this is. We have the momentum – as they say in sports, we have the mo – and it is building every day.”

I personally think that if CRIDO is considering filing a lawsuit against the program it will do so ahead of January 12. Otherwise this whole thing will look like a “membership rallying cry”.

What’s a membership rallying cry? It’s when associations try to come up with a cause to prove their worth to members.