DefendDomain compared to the alternative DRP solutions
DefendDomain finds web addresses made to look like yours and tells you when one is set up to send email or shows a copy of your website. If one is used against you, we get it taken down. We do not cover social media, app stores, marketplaces or the dark web, which the larger platforms do.
We call you within one working day. Or book a 30-minute demo: enough for us to give you a clear annual price for your domains.
Start with the surface your fraud arrives on
Brand protection suites (sometimes sold as digital risk protection, DRP) watch for your brand being impersonated outside your own systems. This is our read on eleven of them, including where each one is the better buy.
Look at your own incidents and ask where the last real one came from. That tells you which kind of product to buy.
Fraud arriving through web addresses that look like yours
A fake login page that collects your staff's passwords. Fake invoices sent from a lookalike of your domain or a supplier's. A copy of your checkout taking customers' card details. This is what we are built for.
Abuse spread across many surfaces at once
Fake social accounts, counterfeit app listings, marketplace abuse, leaked credentials on the dark web. Buy a suite. ZeroFox, Bolster, CTM360 and Netcraft all cover considerably more ground than we do, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a product that does not fit.
Counterfeit goods and trademark abuse
Fake products on marketplaces, piracy, unauthorised distribution. That is IP enforcement and it is a different discipline. Red Points and BrandShield are built for it. We are not, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Where we go deeper than the suites
What we do that a broad suite usually does not.
That is four ways we spot impersonation (lookalike domains, new certificates, copies of your website, copies of your wording), plus the daily check of your own domains.
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The field, and what each one is built around
Eleven vendors you are likely to shortlist alongside us. Each one links to a fuller comparison, including where that vendor is the better choice.
DefendDomain
- Built around:
- Finding web addresses made to look like yours, and getting them taken down
- Beyond domains:
- A daily check of your own domains (email security, DNS, certificates, website settings, exposed files), graded A to F. No social media, app stores, marketplaces or dark web
Compared to
Proofpoint · Enterprise
- Built around:
- Enterprise email and collaboration security
- Beyond domains:
- Email security, DMARC roll-out, supplier account compromise, corporate social media accounts, and the wider security suite around them
Compared to
Bolster · Mid-market to enterprise
- Built around:
- AI-first, multi-channel digital risk protection
- Beyond domains:
- Social media, mobile app stores, dark web, marketplaces, executive impersonation, counterfeit listings
Compared to
ZeroFox · Enterprise
- Built around:
- Enterprise external cybersecurity and digital risk protection
- Beyond domains:
- Social media, dark web, mobile app stores, executive and physical protection, external attack surface management, threat intelligence feeds
Compared to
Netcraft · Enterprise
- Built around:
- Cybercrime detection and takedown at global scale
- Beyond domains:
- Social media across a dozen platforms, fake shops, executive impersonation, credential compromise, malware, threat intelligence feeds, phone-based scams
Compared to
BrandShield · Enterprise, retail-weighted
- Built around:
- Brand and trademark protection for consumer brands
- Beyond domains:
- Marketplace counterfeits, social media, paid search abuse, trademark and IP enforcement, executive impersonation
Compared to
PhishFort · Mid-market
- Built around:
- Managed phishing takedown, weighted to crypto and Web3
- Beyond domains:
- Phishing sites, social media, mobile app stores, dark web, abuse mailbox, executive protection
Compared to
Memcyco · Enterprise, consumer-facing
- Built around:
- Real-time protection for consumer-facing login and checkout
- Beyond domains:
- Account takeover fraud, victim-level tracking, customer-facing trust signals, credential deception
Compared to
Allure Security · Mid-market to enterprise
- Built around:
- Analyst-operated detection and takedown
- Beyond domains:
- Social media, mobile apps, paid ads, dark web, executive protection
Compared to
BforeAI · Mid-market to enterprise
- Built around:
- Predictive attack intelligence
- Beyond domains:
- Predictive threat feeds, third-party and supply chain risk, automated disruption
Compared to
CTM360 · SMB to enterprise
- Built around:
- A consolidated external risk suite
- Beyond domains:
- External attack surface management, digital risk protection, cyber threat intelligence, third-party risk, DMARC, dark web, rogue apps, executive protection
Compared to
Red Points · Mid-market to enterprise
- Built around:
- Counterfeit and IP enforcement at volume
- Beyond domains:
- Marketplace counterfeits, piracy and unauthorised distribution, social media, paid ads, revenue recovery and litigation support
Based on each vendor's own public product material as of September 2026. Vendors change their products, so check anything that matters to you against their current documentation. All names are the trademarks of their respective owners. DefendDomain is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.
The facts your vendor review will ask for
About DefendDomain only. Check the same points with any vendor on your shortlist.
- What we check
- Around 500 lookalikes of each of your domains across 240+ domain endings, re-checked every hour. 100+ public certificate logs, watched as entries appear. Copies of your website and of your wording. Your own domains, checked daily and graded A to F.
- Where a takedown goes
- One click sends the evidence to up to 12 places at once: the registrar, the host, the email provider the domain sends through, an abuse-report network, blocklists and threat feeds, browser warning lists and search engines. Not every place applies to every attack: a domain with no website has nothing for a search engine to remove.
- Follow-up
- Automatic. We chase the host and registrar again at 48 and 96 hours, go to the registry at 120 and 168 hours, and tell you if nothing has moved after 30 days. Most takedowns take between 2 and 96 hours.
- Who approves a takedown
- On Pro, someone on your side confirms it is a live attack and approves it with one click. On Enterprise, our analysts check every alert and run the takedowns. Takedowns are unlimited on both.
- Alerts
- Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, webhook, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and Wazuh.
- Security and data
- ISO 27001 certified (certificate 535732026) and Cyber Essentials certified. UK GDPR and EU GDPR. Our main database is hosted in London (AWS eu-west-2).
- Which plan suits whom
- Pro suits companies that approve takedowns themselves. Enterprise covers unlimited domains and brands, run by our analysts.
- Price and contract
- Pro is an annual plan with 5 domains included, priced by the number of domains you protect. Enterprise is priced to your needs. Both are annual: a 12-month minimum, renewing each year unless you give 30 days' notice. We do not publish the Pro price yet.
We call you within one working day to talk it through.
ISO 27001 certified · Cyber Essentials certified · Winner, teiss Cyber Security Start-up of the Year 2026
Questions buyers ask us
Which brand protection vendor should we choose?
Start with where your fraud actually arrives. If it comes through web addresses that look like yours, phishing your staff and your customers or redirecting supplier payments, choose a specialist that goes deep on lookalike domains. If your problem is spread across social platforms, app stores, marketplaces and the dark web, choose a suite that covers all of them and accept that it will be shallower on each. If counterfeit goods are the issue, choose an IP enforcement platform. Most companies do not need everything, and the widest platform is rarely the best answer to a specific problem.
Can we run DefendDomain alongside what we already have?
Yes. DefendDomain watches the lookalike domains and copies of your site that your email filters never see, so it does not replace them. Alerts go to the tools you already use: email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, webhook, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel or Wazuh. Nothing has to be removed.
How much should domain impersonation protection cost?
Published contract values in this category run from around $5,000 a year at the entry end of a bundled suite to well over $300,000 for enterprise platforms. Those are published estimates rather than quotes, and every vendor prices to your footprint. DefendDomain Pro is an annual plan with 5 domains included, priced by the number of domains you protect, with unlimited takedowns. Enterprise is priced to your needs, with unlimited domains and brands. We do not publish the Pro price yet, so ask us for a pricing call.
What does a domain impersonation specialist cover that a suite does not?
Three things in particular. Lookalike domains that never host a website and exist only to send fake invoices or payroll emails, which we catch on their email records rather than on page content. Copies of your website, found by the optional website marker and by searching the web for your wording. And a daily check of your own domains, graded A to F, rather than only watching from outside.
Is a broader platform always safer?
Not if the breadth is bought and never used. A platform covering seven surfaces spreads its engineering across all seven. If your risk is concentrated on one of them, you are paying for six you will not switch on and getting less depth on the one that matters. A simple test is to look at your own incidents and ask where the last real one arrived.
Do we still need this if we already have email security?
Yes, because they work in different places. Email security checks the mail that reaches your own inbox. The fraud that costs the most often never passes through your systems at all: it goes to your customers and suppliers, or to your finance team from a domain that looks like a supplier. DMARC stops somebody faking a domain you own. It does nothing about a domain the attacker owns, which can pass its own email checks.
How quickly can DefendDomain be running against our domains?
There is nothing to install. Lookalike monitoring, certificate watching and the daily check of your own domains need only your domain names, and the website marker is optional. We help you set up alerts and integrations when you start. To see what we find before you talk to anyone, run the free scan: it checks 150+ lookalikes of your domain in a couple of minutes and emails you the report.
Free scan. No account, no card details.
See your own exposure before you shortlist anybody
Whoever you buy from, it is worth knowing which lookalikes of your domain are already registered. The free scan checks 150+ of them in a couple of minutes and emails you the report.
- Typos, other endings and added words, such as yourcompany-invoices.com
- Which ones are registered, and which are set up to send email as you
- The report in your inbox, usually in a couple of minutes. No account, no card details, no sales call.
