Company expands beyond recovering typosquatted domain names.
CitizenHawk is expanding from its roots as a typosquatting domain name recovery service.
Today the company announced two new services: corporate domain management and online brand monitoring.
The corporate domain management product puts it in competition with companies such as MarkMonitor and CSC. It includes an online domain management system, registration, and private registrations.
The online monitoring tool is unrelated to domain names. It helps companies monitor product reviews, forum comments, etc.
There’s a lot of competition in both of these areas — particularly online monitoring. However, it makes sense for the company to sell these products as they already have an “in” with the right people at the company. Also, many of the corporate domain management companies provide services similar to CitizenHawk already.
This move also shows the reality that typosquatting recovery is a fairly small market.
Kenny says
Its good to see another player in this market since MM, CSC and other are not providing quality service or good and useful information. Not to mention that they don’t keep their customers whois information up-to-date even though we are paying them for that. I will check citizenhawk out.
Hal Meyer says
I read their website.. and their own descriptions of some of their services sound like PI services and legal services.
Are they licensed in those areas?
In California it is a FELONY to operate an unlicensed PI.
These sound like PI services:
“CitizenHawk helps companies manage and defend their domains through professional Corporate Domain Management services, and employs advanced Online Brand Monitoring services to vigilantly scan the Internet to identify emerging threats.
But CitizenHawk doesn’t merely uncover typosquatting schemes. We also respond aggressively with an array of proven domain enforcement tools. We not only shut down infringing sites, but actually reclaim the domains on behalf of trademark owners.”
These sound like legal services:
“* Sending a warning letter to the infringing domain/website owner
* Sending a cease and desist letter.
* Sending take-down notices to the domain’s ISP
* Sending policy-violation notices to the search engine (in cases of paid search abuse)
* Gathering evidence of trademark infringement, consolidating cases and then pursuing recourse through the Uniform Domain-Name Resolution Policy (UDRP) process”
I am just a layperson. These are just my personal observations and opinions.
Are there any lawyers on this blog who are more knowledgeable about these specific legal issues?
MOCUA.COM says
yes, thanks for share