Also your conclusion about Google being most suited to stop it I am uncertain about. I would view it akin to ISP’s role. Companies like CitizenHawk are *legitimately* monetizing trademark names (if I recall correctly the deal is they get domains for holders for the right to monetize them). Also the issue between typo and trademark infringement aren’t synonymous; you (at least Ben) are lawyers and know this.

Furthermore, your suggested solutions really wouldn’t work in practice. The value is the traffic, it will simply be arbitraged onto PPC another way or sent to other forms of monetization. By trying to cut them off simply will just drive that traffic ‘underground’ and redirecting it around in other ways.

[...] intelligence company Cyveillance has interviewed Benjamin Edelman, one of the authors of a recent report on typosquatting, and he has this to say about domainers: they cause harm and add little genuine [...]

It’s also true that most of the traffic and revenue comes from the more popular sites: the 3,264 .com domains we studied in greater detail in our paper account for 1/3 of the total estimated traffic and revenue for the top 100,000 sites. That said, we can’t write off the contributions from the tail.