Question 1

Does this stop the fake page or the fake email itself?

Accepted Answer

Not at your mail server, and not in the browser of anyone who clicks. Mail faked from your own address is refused by your DMARC record, and a lookalike domain is not faking anything, so it passes every check as itself. What this does is shorten the life of the name. One found while it is still empty is already on the watch list when it gains a page, a certificate, or mail records, and a case the moment it is pointed at anything, rather than something you hear about from a customer.

Question 2

Do you register defensive domains for us?

Accepted Answer

No. Buying up the lookalike names yourself is a separate exercise with its own ongoing cost, and it can never cover every spelling. We watch what is actually registered and act on the ones that start being used against you.

Question 3

What happens to a lookalike that is empty and harmless?

Accepted Answer

It stays on the watch list rather than in the queue for action. Empty domains frequently go live months later, so the value is in noticing the moment that changes.

Question 4

How quickly is a new registration picked up?

Accepted Answer

That depends on when a name shows up in the public records of new domains and new security certificates, not on our own schedule alone. In practice it rarely matters to the hour, because lookalike names usually age quietly for weeks before they are used. The window that counts is the gap between registration and first use, and that is the window this closes.

Question 5

Can you act on a domain that has not done anything yet?

Accepted Answer

Usually not, and we will say so rather than bill for reports that go nowhere. The companies that sell domain names need proof of harm, or a trademark case strong enough to rest on the name alone. A harmless registration stays on the watch list until it does something we can act on.

Question 6

How is this different from website monitoring?

Accepted Answer

Website monitoring is the broader sweep across the web, domain records, and app stores, and it also watches your own pages. This is the domain name part of it, aimed specifically at names registered to resemble yours.

The domains that look like yours, caught before they are a real problem.

How a lookalike gets caught before it is used.

The indicators we watch for.

Where lookalike domains connect.

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