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Black Friday Domains: Why Brands Should Be Preparing Now, and Not Later
Black Friday is already attracting counterfeiters, scammers and other bad actors, with around 4,100 related domains registered ahead of the 2026 shopping period. Discover why brands need to start monitoring and protecting their digital presence before Black Friday begins.
Brand Protection Notebook: The Dark Web
The Dark Web presents a complex and often overlooked challenge for brand protection teams. Hidden behind the Tor network, it can host unauthorised brand use, impersonation, sensitive information and data leaks. Yet monitoring this difficult-to-access environment can provide valuable intelligence, helping brands identify emerging risks, uncover connections between infringements and take early action to protect their reputation and assets.
Brand Protection Notebook: Domain Searches
Discover how domain monitoring and intelligent filtering can uncover high-priority brand infringement across complex digital landscapes — even when brand names are short, generic or easily confused with unrelated terms.
This article explores the ecosystem of domains hosted on the .shop (‘dot-shop’) extension, which is popularly used for e-commerce websites, but has also been noted to be disproportionately commonly utilised by bad actors in the construction of fraudulent sites.
Safeguarding L.L.Bean’s Quality Craftsmanship and Customer Trust at Scale
L.L.Bean enhanced the company’s in‑house IP enforcement to a strategic brand protection partnership with SnapDragon, expanding global monitoring, utilising AI-driven detection, and strengthening enforcement results around copycats, impersonation and phishing sites targeting L.L.Bean customers worldwide.
Beauty AI Diagnostic Models: The New Counterfeit Attack Route
For years, the beauty industry’s battle against counterfeits has focused on fake products, copied packaging and unauthorised online sellers.
But the counterfeit landscape is changing.
As brands invest in AI-powered skin diagnostics, personalised skincare recommendations and virtual beauty consultations, counterfeiters are finding new ways to exploit consumer trust—long before a purchase is made.
