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Secure your brand from domain impersonation

Hi all,
Look-alike domains can mislead users by impersonating your organization, hosting fraudulent websites, or supporting phishing and credential theft campaigns. The new Domain Squatting feature in Digital Risk Analyzer generates look-alike domain variations and checks their registration and nameserver information to help you identify domain impersonation.

What is Domain Squatting about?

Here’s a quick look at the risk, how Domain Squatting addresses it, and what you can do to protect your brand:
  1. Risk: Impersonating domains that closely resemble your legitimate domains can put your brand at risk when they're used for phishing, credential theft, or other fraudulent activities.
  2. Solution: Domain Squatting identifies potential impersonating domains by determining whether look-alike variations are registered, helping you assess potential risks to your brand and digital presence.
  3. What you need to do: Distinguish between registered and unregistered variations and review the identified domains to determine which ones may require further investigation and action.

What does the Domain Squatting report show?

The Domain Squatting report gives you an overview of:
  1. Registered look-alike domains that could pose a risk to your organization.
  2. Different techniques used to create domain variations.
  3. Nameserver information, so you can assess whether a domain may be associated with your organization or a third party.
  4. When an identified domain was first found in registry zone data.
  5. Activity status and availability of subdomains of identified domains.

Benefits

By proactively identifying impersonating domains, you can:
  1. Detect potential threats early: Identify registered look-alike domains so you can take action before they are used for malicious activities.
  2. Prioritize suspicious domains: Review registration status, nameserver information, and domain activity to identify domains that may require further investigation. 
  3. Understand potential attack techniques: Identify the techniques used to create look-alike domain variations. 
  4. Protect your brand and users: Investigate potential impersonating domains that could be used for phishing, credential theft, or fraudulent activities and alert your users. 
  5. Stay informed about emerging risks: Track newly identified domains using First Seen information and monitor their status over time.

Getting started

To protect your brand and domain authenticity, start identifying potential impersonating domains with Domain Squatting today.
For more details, refer to our help documentation or get in touch with our support team.

Best regards,
The Digital Risk Analyzer team

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