DefendDomain press kit
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Online: https://www.defenddomain.com/press


Short description (47 words)
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DefendDomain finds web addresses made to look like a company's own and gets them taken down. Criminals use these lookalike domains to send fake invoices, copy websites and steal logins. DefendDomain is a UK company, founded in 2025, with customers in the US, UK, EU and Asia-Pacific.


Long description (161 words)
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DefendDomain finds web addresses made to look like a company's own and gets them taken down. Criminals register these lookalike domains, such as an address one letter away from the real one, to send fake invoices with new bank details, copy websites, run fake online stores and steal logins.

DefendDomain checks around 500 lookalikes of each domain it protects every hour, and watches public certificate logs as new entries appear. When a lookalike is used in an attack, one click sends the evidence to up to 12 places that can act on it, including the registrar, the host and the email provider. It also checks a company's own domains every day for gaps that make impersonation easier.

Founded in 2025 by James Bending and David Batey, DefendDomain is ISO 27001 certified and won Cyber Security Start-up of the Year at the teiss Awards 2026. It has sales in London, engineering in Oxford and customers in the US, UK, EU and Asia-Pacific.


Our name
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DefendDomain is one word, with a capital D at the start of each half. DefendDomain® is a registered trademark of DefendDomain Ltd.


Facts
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Company: DefendDomain Ltd, a UK company formed on 18 September 2025
Company number: 16727523 (Companies House)
Founders: James Bending (Co-founder and CCO) and David Batey (Co-founder and CTO)
Offices: Sales and partnerships in London, engineering in Oxford
Customers: In the US, the UK, the EU and Asia-Pacific
Product: Lookalike domain monitoring and detection, takedown, and a daily A to F check of a company's own domains
Partner programme: For MSPs, resellers and other partners who protect their clients
Certifications: ISO 27001 (September 2026) and Cyber Essentials
Awards: Winner, Cyber Security Start-up of the Year, teiss Awards 2026. Finalist for three more awards in 2026
Website: www.defenddomain.com


Platform figures, October 2026
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6m+ lookalike domains checked every month
75m+ new website certificates checked every day
400k+ visits to customer websites checked for copies every month


Founders
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James Bending, Co-founder and CCO
For over 20 years James has helped some of the world's largest businesses resolve critical issues, and watched cyber security move to the top of the boardroom agenda.
In his previous roles he worked with over 1,000 customers, and saw how many attacks start with someone pretending to be a company people already trust. In 2025 he co-founded DefendDomain to find those fake domains and get them taken down.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbending/

David Batey, Co-founder and CTO
For over 20 years David has built web applications. A computer science graduate, he has founded, grown and sold tech businesses, and was lead developer at a start-up acquired by eBay.
He saw more and more attacks that copy a company's whole website, and in 2025 he co-founded DefendDomain to find those copies and get them removed.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbatey/


Using our logo
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- Use the white logo on dark backgrounds and photos, and the colour logo on white or light ones.
- Keep the files as they are: no new colours, effects or outlines, and no stretching.
- Leave clear space around the logo of at least half its height.


In this kit
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app/      Screenshots of the app with demo data for Tidewell Components Ltd, a fictional company
logos/    The logo in colour and in white, and the icon, as SVG and PNG
photos/   The founders and our London and Oxford offices
product/  Drawings of the product from our website. yourcompany.com is a placeholder.
