Brand protection
Brand protection is the set of services that keep a brand in its owner's hands online: watching the domains, sites and accounts that use it, acting against those that infringe it, and holding the domains and trademarks its markets require.
One team for domains, trademarks and enforcement
A brand online is a set of names: the domains you hold, the trademarks that protect them, the email that carries your name and the accounts that speak for you. Each of them can be copied, taken or forged. Domgate brings together the services that protect them, run by one team that knows both the registry rules of each country code extension and the legal procedures that apply when a name is infringed.
The services fall into four groups: watching what others do with your name, acting when they infringe it, planning and managing your own portfolio, and registering the trademarks that recovery and enforcement rely on. Domgate was founded by a former European trademark attorney, and our legal department handles the cases that call for it.
Watch
Know when your brand is used by someone else.
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Trademark & domain watching
Alerts when a domain containing your brand is registered or changes hands.
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Anti-phishing & social media monitoring
Fake sites, look-alike domains and impersonating accounts found and reported.
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Email spoofing protection (DMARC, BIMI)
Have receiving servers refuse email that forges your domain, and show your logo in the inboxes that support it.
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Attack surface monitoring
An up-to-date view of the domains your organisation holds, and of what needs attention.
Act
Stop the use, recover the name, or block it in advance.
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Domain recovery & disputes (UDRP)
Recover a domain that infringes your trademark, amicably or through a dispute procedure.
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Takedowns & cease-and-desist
Website takedowns (trademark or copyright) and cease-and-desist letters.
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Defensive blocking (DPML, GlobalBlock, AdultBlock)
Block your brand in many extensions at once instead of registering each name.
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Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH)
Record your trademark once for sunrise periods and notices of matching registrations.
Plan & manage
Hold the right domains, in the right places, under one policy.
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Portfolio strategy & audit
An inventory of your domains, the gaps by market, and a policy to keep it in order.
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Domain acquisition & brokerage
Buy a domain that someone else holds, without revealing who is buying.
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Portfolio consolidation
Bring domains scattered across registrars and subsidiaries into one account.
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Managed services & reporting
Your portfolio run by our team, with regular reports for the people who decide.
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Anonymous registration
Register domains without revealing the project behind them.
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DotBrand
A top-level domain made of your own brand.
Trademarks
The rights that recovery and enforcement rely on.
Brand protection: frequent questions
Four groups of services: watching domains, websites, email and social media for uses of your brand; acting against infringements with takedowns, recovery procedures and blocking; planning and managing your domain portfolio; and registering the trademarks that give you rights.
With what it already holds: an inventory of its domains and trademarks, compared with its markets. The gaps it shows decide the next steps. Our portfolio strategy and audit and our trademark and domain watching are the usual first steps.
Yes. Our reseller partners offer corporate services such as portfolio audit and consolidation, domain watching, cease-and-desist letters, UDRP procedures and anonymization to their own clients. Our reseller partner program explains how.
Each case depends on the brands, the markets and the services involved. Tell us what you want to protect, and we come back with a proposal.
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