Website takedown
Impersonating sites, taken offline at the root.
A site wearing your brand sells counterfeit goods, harvests your customers' data or simply trades on your name. We take it down through the channels that actually switch sites off: hosts, registrars, registries and security vendors.
sites actioned
offline via host or registrar
median takedown
Reporting the page is not enough.
Flagging a fake site to a search engine or a social platform removes a pointer to it, but the site itself keeps running, keeps harvesting and keeps emailing your customers. Real takedowns happen where the site lives: the host that serves it and the registrar that owns its domain.
Those channels respond to specific, well-formed complaints: trademark infringement, impersonation, phishing and fraud, each documented against the site's actual content. Vague reports die in queues. Precise ones, served to the right party with the right evidence, take sites offline in days.
How it works
From first email to measurable movement.
What a website takedown engagement includes
- Full technical mapping of the target site and its infrastructure
- Documented complaints to hosts and domain registrars
- Phishing and fraud reports through security channels
- Search de-index and browser-warning submissions
- Copycat domain monitoring
- Coordination with your counsel where trademark law applies
Median takedown around 5 days once the complaint lands with the right party.
Success in reputation recovery
Takedowns, measured.
Live impersonating domains in a typical anonymised engagement. New copycat domains are the main recurring risk, which is what monitoring covers.
Why the registrar is the real lever
Hosts can move a site; registrars control its name. A domain that persistently hosts infringement, impersonation or fraud can be suspended outright, and registries above the registrar provide a further layer for the worst cases. That chain of escalation is what turns ignored reports into offline sites.
Prevention is cheaper than repetition. Impersonators rotate new domains against known brands, so we close with monitoring across new registrations and lookalike patterns. The next fake domain gets flagged in its first hours, before it collects a single victim.
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
Can you take down any website?
No. We take down sites that violate the policies of their host and registrar, or the law: impersonation, counterfeiting, phishing and infringement of rights you hold. Lawful sites critical of you stay online, and we will not pursue them.
How fast can an impersonating site go offline?
Median takedown is around five days from the complaint reaching the right party. Phishing and fraud cases often move faster because security vendors and registrars treat them as emergencies. Trademark-only cases can take longer.
What about copycat domains that appear later?
They are the expected follow-up, which is why engagements close with lookalike monitoring. New registrations against your brand name and common misspellings are flagged early and the same escalation chain is fired immediately.
Do you need our trademark registration?
It strengthens complaints considerably, especially at the registrar and marketplace level, but is not always required for impersonation and phishing routes. We will tell you exactly what documentation helps your specific case.
See where you stand.
Start with a free Risk Check, or email us for a confidential conversation under NDA. We never call clients, in any case.