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Digital Risk Protection
Lookalike domain monitoring and takedown
Introducing DefendDomain
Your brand’s reputation is vulnerable to bad actors who register lookalike domains to deceive your clients, partners, and staff.
Through DefendDomain, Mondas provides proactive monitoring to detect these threats early, delivering concrete evidence and facilitating swift takedowns to protect your digital assets.
<30 min
from registration to first fraud email, in attacks DefendDomain has investigated
75M+
certificates scanned every day for names like yours
500–2k
lookalikes watched for each of your domains
Up to 12
takedown channels triggered with one click
Impersonation happens outside your network
Anyone can register a domain that looks almost like yours: one changed letter, an added word such as “-payments”, or .net instead of .co.uk. From it, a criminal can send email and run a website in your name.
Your firewall, email filter and security monitoring protect your own systems. A lookalike domain runs on someone else’s, and its emails land in other people’s inboxes. Often the first you hear of it is from a customer or supplier who has already paid, and by then the cost is yours.
Customers are misled
A fake email or website in your name gets them to pay a false invoice or hand over their details. They trust you less afterwards.
Staff give away passwords
A fake login page on a lookalike domain collects their passwords. The link can arrive by text message, chat or personal email, where your filters may not see it.
Suppliers and finance are targeted
Criminals email your suppliers asking them to change bank details, or pose as a director and ask your finance team for an urgent payment. That money is often hard to recover.
One more place to watch: the open internet
Our Managed SOC watches your network and our Dark Web Monitoring watches criminal marketplaces. Digital Risk Protection covers the third place your name can be used against you: domains and websites you do not own.
Inside your network
Managed SOC
Our analysts watch your devices, accounts and network for signs of attack.
Managed SOC
On the dark web
Dark Web
We look for your stolen credentials and data being sold or shared by criminals.
Dark Web Monitoring
On the open internet
Digital Risk Protection
We find lookalike domains and copies of your website, alert you with the evidence and start the takedown.
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Get a free domain threat report
Find out which lookalikes of your domain are already registered and which can send email. One of our consultants will talk you through what we find.
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Lookalike domains
Between 500 and 2,000 lookalikes of each of your domains are watched continuously: typing mistakes, letters that look the same, added words such as “-invoices” or “-login”, and other domain endings. New registrations are spotted early.
🔗Domain monitoring
Lookalikes built only for email
Many fake domains never have a website. They exist to send false invoices and payment requests. We watch each lookalike’s email set-up and flag each one that is made ready to send.
🔗Invoice fraud
Copies of your website
When your website’s content appears on a domain you do not own, you get an alert, even if the address looks nothing like yours. Fake copies are often used to collect passwords and payments. An optional website snippet makes the alert instant.
🔗Clone detection
New certificates naming your brand
A fake website usually needs a security certificate, and these are logged publicly. We watch those logs for new certificates naming your brand. Issuing one is often the last step before a fake site goes live.
🔗Transparency monitoring
Email security on your domains
Every day we check your own domains’ SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DNS and TLS settings, grade each domain from A to F and show how to fix each problem. This helps stop criminals sending email as your exact domain.
🔗How it worksFrom first sign to takedown
1. Spotted early
2. Sorted by real risk
3. Alerts with evidence
4. Taken down
Takedown evidence is vital…
Run for you, alongside the services you already have
We set it up for your domains, watch the alerts with your team and start the takedowns. There is nothing for your people to learn and no one extra to hire.
Alerts reach your team and ours at the same time
Takedowns started and followed up for you
A monthly report on your domains
Nothing to install. An optional website snippet adds instant copy alerts
Proven on real attacks
Delivered with DefendDomain, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified UK specialist
Common questions
Yes, if your customers, staff or suppliers could be fooled by an email or website in your name. Your SOC and email filter protect your own systems and mailboxes. A lookalike domain sends its emails to other people’s inboxes, and its fake login pages can reach your staff by text message or personal email. This service watches the open internet, where those attacks are set up, and starts takedowns.
They watch different places and work well together. Dark Web Monitoring looks for your data after it has been stolen. Digital Risk Protection finds the fake domains used to steal it and to defraud your customers, and starts their takedown.
DMARC helps stop criminals sending email from your exact domain, such as yourcompany.co.uk. A lookalike such as yourcompany-payments.com is a different domain, with settings the criminal controls. You need both: DMARC on your own domains, which we check every day, and monitoring and takedown for the lookalikes.
No. We set up the monitoring and send alerts to your team. Website-copy alerts already work by matching unique phrases from your site across major search engines. For an instant alert the moment a copy loads, we can give your web team a small optional snippet to add to your website.
Usually not. It depends on the evidence, and the registrar or hosting company decides. They normally act once a domain is used against you, for example to send fraud emails or show a fake copy of your website.
Sometimes a new lookalike can be tied to earlier attacks through the same account or set-up, and then the registrar or host may act before it is used. Either way, we keep it under watch so the evidence is ready. DefendDomain explains more in Can you take down a lookalike domain?
Tell us your main domain. We will show you which lookalikes of it are already registered and which of them can send email, with what we would do about each.
Get a free domain threat report
Find out which lookalikes of your domain are already registered and which can send email. One of our consultants will talk you through what we find.
