DefendDomain compared to PhishFort
PhishFort is a managed takedown service that sells the outcome rather than the console, with a customer base weighted towards crypto and Web3.
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PhishFort at a glance
PhishFort is a managed phishing takedown service weighted to crypto and Web3, sold as much on the analyst service wrapped around Digital Risk Protection (DRP) detection as on the platform itself.
DefendDomain is a detection platform you can run yourself or hand to us, and the meaningful difference is what happens before a phishing page exists.
- PhishFort is built around
- Managed phishing takedown, weighted to crypto and Web3
- Typically sold to
- Mid-market
- Typical annual cost
- Quote only, no public pricing
Choose PhishFort if
- You want somebody else to own the whole process and you do not want a console at all.
- You are in crypto or Web3, one of the sectors their published material calls out.
- Phishing pages are your main threat, and lookalikes set up only to send email are not a concern for your business.
- A managed relationship matters more to you than direct access to your own threat data.
Choose DefendDomain if
- You want the domain caught at registration, not the page taken down after it appears.
- Invoice fraud and supplier payment redirection are on your risk register, which means lookalikes set up only to send email matter.
- You want the option to run it yourself, with full visibility, and to change your mind later without changing product.
- You want unlimited takedowns written into the plan rather than negotiated.
What PhishFort does well, and who should buy them
Taken from what PhishFort publishes about its own product. If this is the shape of your problem, they are a reasonable buy and we will say so.
Takedown execution as the product
They sell removal rather than dashboards, which suits a team that has no appetite to run the process. That is a clear, honest proposition and it is the right shape for some buyers.
Crypto and Web3 experience
Their published customers include well-known wallet and crypto businesses. That sector faces impersonation at a volume and speed most industries do not, and experience there is worth something.
Reach across several channels
Their published coverage runs across websites, mobile app stores, social media and the dark web, with an abuse mailbox and executive protection alongside. That is wider than ours and it is a real capability.
Where DefendDomain goes deeper
We work on one problem: web addresses made to look like yours, and copies of your website. We find them, tell you which can send email or show a copy of your site, and get them taken down when they are used against you.
Detection is the part that decides the outcome
A takedown service needs something to take down, which means a phishing page that already exists. We generate around 500 lookalikes of each domain that an attacker is likely to use, so if one of them is registered it is already on our list, and we re-check it every hour.
Run it yourself or hand it to us
On Pro, your team reads the alerts and approves takedowns with one click. On Enterprise, our analysts check every alert and run the takedowns for you. The detection behind both is the same, and either way you can see your own alerts and evidence.
Your own domains graded as well
We check your own domains daily for email security, DNS and takeover risk, certificates, website settings and exposed files. A finding that was fixed and comes back is reopened automatically. A takedown service points outward only.
The same questions, answered for both of us
What the product is built around
DefendDomain
Finding web addresses made to look like yours and getting them taken down: lookalike domains, new certificates, copies of your website and of your wording, plus a daily check of your own domains
PhishFort
Managed phishing takedown across web, social and app stores, sold as an outcome rather than a platform
Lookalike domains that never host a website
DefendDomain
We check the email set-up (MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records) of every registered lookalike. When one is set up to send email, we flag it, even if it has no website
PhishFort
Their published intelligence sources include DNS zones, WHOIS records and MX servers, and they describe continuing to monitor a flagged typo domain (typosquat) while it hosts no infringing content
When someone copies your website
DefendDomain
The optional website marker (a small script or a 1×1 image on the pages you choose) reports when a copy of a page loads somewhere else, and we search the web for distinctive phrases from your site
PhishFort
Phishing page detection is published. A website marker on your pages, and web searches for your wording, are not listed in their public material as of September 2026
Takedowns
DefendDomain
Unlimited on Pro and Enterprise. One click sends the evidence to up to 12 places at once, with automatic follow-ups to the host, registrar and registry
PhishFort
The centre of the offering, delivered as a managed service. Volume terms are not published, so check your quote
Your own domains
DefendDomain
A daily check of your own domains (email security, DNS and takeover risk, certificates, website settings, exposed files), graded A to F, with a fix for each finding
PhishFort
Not part of the published offering. The service points outward at attacks, not inward at your own configuration
How you buy it
DefendDomain
Pro: an annual plan priced by the number of domains you protect, where you approve each takedown. Enterprise: priced to your needs, with our analysts running the takedowns
PhishFort
Managed service contracts. Pricing is quote only and no price list is published
Comparison based on PhishFort's own public product material as of September 2026. Vendors change their products, so check anything that matters to you against their current documentation and your own quote. PhishFort is a trademark of its owner. DefendDomain is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by PhishFort.
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.
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What each of us costs
Most vendors in this category do not publish a price list. This is how each of us charges.
What moving actually involves
There is no software to install and no data to move. Lookalike monitoring, certificate watching and the daily check of your own domains need only your domain names. The website marker is optional: a small script or a 1×1 image on the pages you choose.
Step 1
Decide whether you are buying software or people
A managed service means somebody else does the work, which has real value if you have no security team. With us you choose: Pro, where your team approves takedowns, or Enterprise, where our analysts run them.
Step 2
Check the takedown model before anything else
The most expensive surprise in this category is discovering that takedowns are an allowance. Ours are unlimited on Pro and Enterprise.
Step 3
Run both for a fortnight
There is nothing to migrate and no data to move, so a parallel run costs you only the time to read two sets of alerts. If you are part-way through a PhishFort contract, you can let it run to its end rather than paying twice to leave early.
Questions buyers ask us about PhishFort
What does PhishFort cost, and how is DefendDomain priced differently?
PhishFort does not publish a price list, and as a managed service the quote reflects analyst time as well as software. DefendDomain Pro is an annual plan priced by the number of domains you protect, with unlimited takedowns and no per-incident charge. The practical difference is what happens in a bad month: a metered or volume-priced service costs more exactly when you are under the most pressure, and a flat subscription does not.
What is the difference between a takedown service and a detection platform?
A takedown service acts on threats once they exist and have been reported or found. A detection platform is watching before that, which for us means generating around 500 lookalikes of each of your domains, re-checking them every hour for registration, website and email changes, and watching public certificate logs. We do both, and takedowns are unlimited on Pro and Enterprise.
Do we have to run DefendDomain ourselves?
No. On Pro, someone on your side reads the alerts and approves each takedown with one click. On Enterprise, our analysts check every alert and run the takedowns for you. The detection behind both is the same.
Why do lookalikes set up only to send email matter so much?
Because they are what fake invoices are sent from. A domain registered to look like yours, set up to send email and used to send four invoice emails to your finance team or your suppliers never hosts a page, so anything looking for phishing content will not find it. We check its email set-up and alert you when it can send email, even with no website.
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Free scan. No account, no card details.
Settle it on your own domain
The clearest way to compare two detection products is to point both at the same domain. Start with ours: the free scan checks 150+ lookalikes of your domain in a couple of minutes and emails you what it found.
- 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.
