Brand Protection Guides: Typosquatting & Lookalike Domains

What Is Typosquatting? How Lookalike Domains Attack Your Brand — Typosquatting is the practice of registering domain names that closely resemble a legitimate brand's domain — usually by exploiting common typing…
How to Detect Brand Impersonation and Lookalike Domains — Detect brand impersonation by monitoring for domains that copy your name through misspellings, character swaps, and extra keywords, then checking which of…
Lookalike Domains and Phishing: Why They Work and How to Stop Them — Lookalike domains are web addresses deliberately crafted to resemble a legitimate brand's domain so closely that people mistake one for the other…
How to Protect Your Brand From Domain Abuse and Typosquats — Brand protection is the practice of finding and shutting down domains that impersonate your company — typosquats, lookalikes, and cloned sites used to…
Homoglyph Attacks: How Lookalike Characters Fake Your Domain — A homoglyph attack is a domain-spoofing technique where an attacker registers a domain that swaps one or more characters for visually identical ones…
What Is Combosquatting? Brand-Plus-Keyword Domains Explained — Combosquatting is a domain impersonation technique where an attacker registers a domain that pairs a real brand name, spelled correctly, with an extra…
Cybersquatting: What It Is and How to Get a Domain Back — Cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name that matches or closely imitates someone else's trademark, in bad faith, to…
Defensive Domain Registration: Which Variants of Your Domain to Buy — Defensive domain registration means buying the domain variants an attacker would most likely use to impersonate you, so they can't be registered for…
How to Take Down a Fake Website Impersonating Your Business — A fake website impersonating your business is taken down by reporting it to the companies that keep it online: the hosting provider serving the…
Lookalike Domains in Email Spoofing and Business Email Compromise — Email domain spoofing is when an attacker sends email that appears to come from your organization, either by forging your exact domain in the "From"…
How to prevent typosquatting on new brand launches — Preventing brand launch typosquatting comes down to timing. Secure your domain variants, trademarks, and social handles *before* anything about the new…

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