DarkInvader's DNS Monitoring feature regularly tracks registered and available domains that closely resemble your company's domain.
This allows you to investigate potentially malicious domains and secure unregistered ones to prevent their misuse, helping to protect your brand and reduce phishing risks.
● why it matters
Monitoring DNS activity related to similar or look-alike domains is vital for preventing phishing attacks and domain spoofing. Without DNS monitoring, attackers can exploit domain names resembling your own to deceive customers and employees, leading to security breaches and reputational damage.
DNS monitoring helps identify domains registered by third parties that closely resemble your own, allowing you to investigate and take action before they can be used in phishing attacks.
Monitoring reveals available domains that are similar to your own, giving you the opportunity to purchase them and prevent attackers from registering them for malicious purposes.
By tracking similar registered domains, you can preemptively act against potential domain spoofing attempts, protecting your organisation from brand impersonation and fraudulent activity.
DNS monitoring helps prevent the misuse of look-alike domains that could deceive your customers or employees, reducing the risk of reputational damage and financial loss.
● how it works
DarkInvader's DNS Monitoring solution provides comprehensive tracking of both registered and available domains similar to your company's. The platform empowers you to take action against suspicious domains and secure unregistered ones, reducing the risk of domain-based attacks.
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DarkInvader monitors registered domains that are similar to your company's, alerting you to suspicious activity. This allows you to quickly detect domains that could be used in phishing or spoofing attacks.
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The platform identifies similar, unregistered domains, giving you the opportunity to secure these domains and prevent malicious actors from acquiring and misusing them.
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While the platform does not directly add domains to a blacklist, it provides a detailed list of suspicious or similar domains that you can use with other security solutions to blacklist and prevent phishing attempts.
DarkInvader’s DNS Monitoring tracks registered and available domains that closely resemble your company’s own. It generates lookalike variations of your domain, shows which are already registered and which are still available, and rates each by similarity and risk. This lets you investigate potentially malicious domains and secure unregistered ones before attackers can use them for phishing or brand impersonation.
DarkInvader checks permutations of your domain that could be mistaken for the real one, including typosquats with an added hyphen or swapped letters, homoglyphs that replace characters with visually similar ones, alternative endings such as .co or .net, and variations that add words like ‘secure’ or ‘login’. Each result shows whether the domain is registered, how similar it is to yours and its risk level.
DarkInvader monitors registered lookalike domains and alerts you to suspicious activity. For each one you can review its WHOIS record, including the registrar, creation date, name servers and whether an MX record is configured, alongside a capture of its live site. A recently registered domain with mail records set up, or a site copying your branding, is a strong sign it is being prepared for phishing.
You can request a takedown of a malicious lookalike directly from its details in the platform, through DarkInvader’s Website Takedowns service, which removes fake and malicious sites impersonating your brand. DarkInvader also provides a detailed list of suspicious and similar domains to use with your other security solutions for blacklisting, as the platform does not add domains to a blacklist directly.
Any unregistered domain that closely resembles yours could be bought by an attacker and used to deceive your customers or employees. DNS Monitoring highlights these available domains so you can register them yourself and keep them out of attackers’ hands. Securing similar domains alongside monitoring registered ones reduces the risk of phishing, domain spoofing and the reputational and financial damage that follows.
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