Monitoring Services: We monitor the use of your good name!

BrandShelter’s monitoring services are the front-line of defense in the unyielding protection of your assets. We offer a holistic set of monitoring solutions to effectively and proactively discover, mitigate, and defend against abuse of your trademarks on the Internet.

  • Protect your brand against cybersquatting.
  • Be aware of newly registered brands that exactly match your trademark.
  • Benefit from our expertise.

Trademarks

Domains

Internet

Social Media

Mobile Apps

Online Marketplace

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Trademarks

BrandShelter provides global monitoring of the use of your brand on the Internet and provides you with comprehensive information about online activities related to your brand.

  • Recognize trademark infringements at an early stage.
  • Take action against the abuse of your brand on the Internet.
  • We protect your good name.

Domains

BrandShelter will monitor your domain registrations under all country-code top level domains (ccTLDs) and under more than 1,000 generic TLDs.

  • Monitor existing and registered domains.
  • Find out when interesting domain names become available for you.
  • Keep track of domains that contain exact or close matches to your brands or company name.

Internet

BrandShelter's Internet Monitoring provides information about who is using your company name, products or your brand names - in a website and in meta data.

  • Where can your brands be found on the net?
  • Find out when your brand names are mentioned on the web.
  • Get information about downtimes or changes to your website.

Social Media

BrandShelter's social media monitoring protects your reputation on social media and provides you with important information about communications about your brand.

  • Learn who's publishing information about your brand.
  • Protect your brand from abuse on Social Media.
  • Keep track of Facebook and other popular Social Media platforms.

Mobile Apps

With BrandShelter's mobile app monitoring tool, you'll learn what's happening in app stores regarding your brands and products. Get detailed reports on how your brands are being used in apps.

  • Learn who is using your brand on its app.
  • Protect from trademark infringement in apps.
  • Keep track of which apps are using your company or product names.

Online Marketplace

BrandShelter monitors online stores and auction platforms and informs you as soon as your product is offered for sale or auction.

  • Learn where your products are offered.
  • Keep track of sales of your products or look-alikes.
  • Discover plagiarism and knock-offs of your products!

FAQ - What you always wanted to know about monitoring

Cybersquatting means the registration of domains that deliberately violate the IP rights of third parties. This includes using existing company or brand names within registrations. The aim for registrants is to prevent someone else from buying the domain in addition to exploiting it for their own gain, often for illegal activity or to ‘ransom’ the domain to a brand owner. An example would be the registration "brandname.shop" by a third party if the trademark owner has only registered the brandname.com or brandname.de domains. Another example would be the registration of an exact match ccTLD / new gTLD domain, prior to a brand owner adding it to their portfolio.

A domain registrant must be able to prove a legal intention to use the domain they have registered, otherwise the registration will be considered malicious and the registrant may be considered a domain squatter. As the registrant of such a domain prevents the legitimate trademark holder from registering and using that domain, the registrant acts illegally in those countries where proprietary, company and trademark names can be protected.

If proof of malicious registration can be provided in court, the domain registrant is threatened with a severe fine.

There are no explicit laws against cybersquatting in the United Kingdom. However, trademark owners can take action against cybersquatting for trademark infringement based on the Trade Mark Act 1994 and protect their name rights.

Typosquatting is the registration of domains that are identical to known names or brand names except for a typo, including using numbers and different character sets to impersonate the ‘real’ brand name characters.  Once these domains are registered, the creation of fraudulent and counterfeit sites using these typo domains, in addition phishing attacks through email use, often follow. These pages are designed to ensure that the user does not notice the scam and enters their personal and payment details as usual.

Gripe sites are created to criticize people, places or companies. It is difficult to take action against this kind of cybersquatting. The operators of such sites are usually not out to make a profit, which is against malicious registration for profitable resale, and they actively use the domain, so they are not domain squatters.  However, it is important to recognise when these sites have been registered so they can be monitored for activity.