I wonder how eager they would be to implement wildcards if restricted from making any revenue from the service the wildcard points to (ie. sitefinder).

If Verisign establishes that it is a legitimate business practice to redirect traffic for misspelled domain names, then the question is, who has the most right to do this? This is especially important in the case of an ISP who could easily divert the misspelled traffic themselves by making some simple changes to their DNS servers. Since there is a direct business relationship between the ISP and the end user, one would think that their rights take precedence over Verisign's, both in law and in actual technical facts. I wouldn't be surprised to see this sort of diversion pop up in University networks because their user communities are focussed on a single purpose, namely education. I could see them forwarding to a site that tells the user why they were diverted to the page, explains the privacy risks of the Verisign diversion, gives them an option to change DNS servers to opt-out of the University's diversion, and provides links to online dictionaries, spell-checking software, keyboarding software, etc. --Michael Dillon