companyA victim website will usually send a cease and desist letter to the offender at first, in an attempt to quell the activity.
It may also try to purchase the website address from the typosquatter, which could have been the typosquatter's aim all along.
Occasionally, lawsuits will be taken against the offending site or individual.
A company may try and preempt typosquatting by obtaining a number of websites with common misspellings and redirect them to the main, correctly spelled website. For example www.gooogle.com, www.goolge.com, www.gogle.com www.gewgle.com, and others, all redirect to www.google.com.
Microsoft has released new software to help combat this issue. The software is called "Strider Typo-Patrol". This is a tool that scans and shows third-party domains that are allegedly typosquatting. It also lets parents restrict access to typo-squatting domains that show sexually oriented ads on typos of children's web sites.
The name AltaVista refers both to an Internet search engine company and to that company's search engine product.
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