Vigilocity's Mythic Platform – Real-time Brand & Trademark Infringement Search

Domain squatting refers to the act of registering or acquiring a domain name that is similar to an established brand, company, or trademark, with the intention of exploiting it for financial gain or disrupting the legitimate owner’s online presence. In more nefarious cases, the domain is used to send phishing emails to employees, partners and customers of the legitimate brand and is commonly employed as an early stage tactic for ransomware or influence operations.

In this video, several searches of exceedingly well known brands are conducted on a corpus of enriched data spanning from January 1, 2023 through May 28, 2023. The queries and results are as follows:

“walmart” – 81 domains, 31 registrants, 33 email addresses, 29 locations, most recent registration May 22, 2023
“amazon” – 756 domains, 422 registrants, 417 email addresses, 313 locations, most recent registration May 27, 2023
“americanexpress” – 5 domains, 4 registrants, 4 email addresses, 4 locations, most recent registration April 30, 2023
“microsoft” – 123 domains, 100 registrants, 101 email addresses, 93 locations, most recent registration May 28, 2023
“capitalone” – 7 domains, 7 registrants, 7 email addresses, 7 locations, most recent registration April 24, 2023
“google” – 157 domains, 129 registrants, 132 email addresses, 114 locations, most recent registration May 28, 2023

Vigilocity’s mission is near instant notification of fraudulent domain registrations immediately followed by rapid domain takedown, mitigating further damage and disrupting the threat actor.