A brand is impersonated in more places than it is registered. These guides cover building a response process, choosing between categories of tooling, and what happens after you report a domain.
START WITH REPORT A LOOKALIKE DOMAIN: REGISTRAR, HOST AND BLOCKLISTS
Reporting a lookalike domain is the act of sending evidence about an abusive registration to the intermediaries that can act on it: the registrar that sponsors the name, the provider that serves what it points at, and the blocklist operators that can warn people away from it.
12 min readBrand protection for domains is a written set of decisions about which names are in scope, which are worth registering, which are only worth watching, and who does what on the day a finding turns out to be real.
11 min readA domain takedown is a request to an intermediary, usually a hosting provider or a registrar, to stop serving or stop resolving a name that is being used abusively, decided under that intermediary's own terms rather than by a court.
12 min readMore sections: Typosquatting, Domain protection, Domain intelligence, Email security, Typosquatting patterns.