I think you're on to something. I'm actually doing my law school research on the topic as we speak...
The problems would be:
-who would have standing (the trademarks that are infringed by VeriSign might have to be from a holder who has a service similar to SiteFinder - something like a search engine or a web portal should do... example: searchgoogle.com is protected derivative of google's intellectual property, that would resolve to SiteFinder - and would result in sufficient consumer confusion)
-getting around the "registration" requirement of the cybersquatting statutes
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I think you're on to something. I'm actually doing my law school research on the topic as we speak... The problems would be: -who would have standing (the trademarks that are infringed by VeriSign might have to be from a holder who has a service similar to SiteFinder - something like a search engine or a web portal should do... example: searchgoogle.com is protected derivative of google's intellectual property, that would resolve to SiteFinder - and would result in sufficient consumer confusion) -getting around the "registration" requirement of the cybersquatting statutes