Typosquatting Protection Service
In typosquatting attacks, criminals register look-alike or misspelled domains to intercept web traffic, phish customers, and erode brand trust. Typosquatting grows faster, cheaper, and harder to detect, putting your reputation, revenue, and customer data at serious risk.
With our Typosquatting Protection Service, we help you detect, assess, and remove fraudulent domains, safeguarding your brand and protecting your customers.
About Typosquatting
Understanding typosquatting is essential to protecting your brand and customers from deceptive domains and fraudulent activity. Here’s what you need to know to recognize the threat and stay ahead of cybercriminals targeting your online presence.
Definition
Typosquatting involves domains that mimic a brand using misspellings, added or omitted letters, or visually similar characters called homoglyphs. These deceptive domains exploit common typing errors to mislead users and capture web traffic intended for the real brand.
Impact
These attacks can facilitate phishing, steal credentials, divert traffic, spread malware, sell counterfeit goods, and damage brand reputation. The consequences include financial loss, compromised customer trust, and reduced web engagement.
Different Types
Common techniques include keyboard errors, letter additions or omissions, and homoglyph substitutions that make domains appear legitimate.
Surfaces
Typosquatting can appear on websites, emails, ads, marketplaces, and social media profiles, making monitoring across all digital channels essential.
Domain Dispute and Takedown Options
Handling domain abuse differs from marketplace disputes, as it is governed by global policy frameworks and registrar abuse procedures. Understanding these options is key to protecting your brand online.
UDRP, URS, and Abuse Channels
Brand owners can recover or suspend abusive domains through formal processes such as the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), administered by WIPO or the Forum, which is suitable for cases where trademark infringement is clear. For straightforward, unambiguous cases, the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) offers a faster resolution. In addition, registrars and hosting providers maintain abuse reporting channels to address phishing, malware, or other malicious activity. Need guidance on evidence and filings? Our experts can help you choose and execute the right approach.
Takedown measures
Manual domain enforcement is complex and time-consuming across registrars, registries, hosts, and DNS providers. Partnering with brand protection experts helps streamline monitoring, evidence collection, and action. Reach out to the EBRAND team if you’re interested.
For domains
You can file a dispute to recover or suspend abusive domains using UDRP (transfer) or URS (rapid suspension) through approved providers. You’ll need evidence of trademark rights, bad faith, and confusing similarity. Not sure which to choose? A specialist can help assess your case and prepare filings.
For hosting and DNS
If a typosquat serves phishing or malware, you can report abuse directly to the registrar, registry, hosting provider, and DNS resolver. Include URLs, headers, logs, and screenshots to expedite disabling the content or the domain’s resolution.
For email and certificates
Report spoofing and look‑alike email domains via registrar abuse channels and configure DMARC, SPF, and DKIM. If a fraudulent TLS certificate is in use, notify the CA or use revocation channels to limit trust in the site.
Conclusion
Coordinating multi-party actions can drain resources. EBRAND centralizes detection, prioritization, and enforcement to reduce time-to-takedown. Get in touch to streamline domain dispute and abuse workflows.
