How to Set Up Brand Monitoring on WhoisFreaks

Brand monitoring scans the entire domain namespace for domains that contain your brand term. It detects newly registered domains, dropped domains, updated domains, and discovered domains matching your brand; helping you identify potential trademark infringement, typosquatting, and phishing attacks.

Prerequisites

Before setting up brand monitoring, you need:

• A WhoisFreaks account: If you don't have one yet, follow our Getting Started with WhoisFreaks tutorial to sign up.
• An active Brand Monitoring subscription: Choose a plan that fits your needs from the Brand Monitoring pricing page.

Available Pricing Plans

Need typosquatting detection? Choose a "With Typos" plan. These plans detect domains that are misspellings or visual look-alikes of your brand term, helping you catch phishing and impersonation attempts.

Purchase a plan

1. Log in to your WhoisFreaks account
2. Navigate to Billing and then Monitoring from the sidebar
3. Select the Brand Monitoring plan that suits your needs
4. Complete the checkout

Once your subscription is active, you can start adding brand terms to monitor immediately.

Visit the Brand Monitoring product page for full details.

Setting Up Your Brand Monitor

Step 1: Navigate to the Brand Monitor

Log in to your WhoisFreaks account and navigate to the Monitoring section. Click on the Brand Monitor tab.

Step 2: Add a Brand Term

Enter your brand name in the Brand Name input field and click "Add to Monitor".

Example

whoisfreaks

Tip: Choose a unique brand term. Common dictionary words like "cloud" or "google" will match thousands of domains. The more specific your term, the more relevant your results.

WhoisFreaks will queue the brand for monitoring. The system scans the global domain database for all domains containing your brand term.

Step 3: View Your Monitored Brands

After adding a brand, it appears in the brand monitoring table:

If typosquatting is enabled for a brand, a "typos enabled" badge appears below the brand name.

Step 4: Configure Excluded Terms

Not all domains containing your brand term are relevant. You can exclude up to 10 terms to filter out false positives.

• Click the "Edit" button on the brand's row
• The edit panel opens
• In the Excluded Terms field, type terms separated by commas

For example, if your brand is apple, you might exclude:

pineapple, applesauce, applewood

4. Click "Save"

The brand edit panel showing the excluded terms input with tag chips, and the save button

Domains containing any excluded term will be filtered out from your change reports.

Step 5: Enable Typosquatting Detection

Requires a "With Typos" plan.

Typosquatting detection monitors domains that are misspellings or visual look-alikes of your brand term. For example, if your brand is whoisfreaks, typosquatting might catch wh0isfreaks, whoisfreak, or whoisfreakss.

To enable:

• Click "Edit" on the brand's row
• Toggle "Enable Typo Squatting" on
• Click "Save"

Once enabled, typosquatting domains are included in all four change categories (added, dropped, updated, discovered) alongside the exact brand match results.

Step 6: View Brand Changes

When changes are detected, the Last Changed column shows the date. Click "View Changes" to open the brand changes modal.

Each date section shows:

• Summary badges: color-coded counts for Added (green), Dropped (red), Updated (amber), Discovered (blue)
• Domain lists: up to 15 domains per category with lookup menus
• Download button: export the full data as JSON

Step 7: Use Domain Lookup Tools

Each domain in the change list has a "Lookup" dropdown with quick links to:

These tools help you investigate suspicious domains matching your brand.

Step 8: Download Changes as JSON

Each date's changes can be downloaded as a JSON file for further analysis or archival.

Click the "Download JSON" button in the date section header. The file is named:

2025-05-11_whoisfreaks_brand-changes.json

The JSON includes the complete domain lists for all four categories without the 15-domain preview limit.

If typosquatting is enabled, the download includes typosquatting domains merged into the main lists.

Step 9: Set Up Telegram Notifications

Brand monitoring supports Telegram notifications so you receive alerts when new changes are detected.

1. In the brand monitor section, find the Telegram Notifications card
2. Click the Telegram login widget to link your Telegram account
3. Once linked, toggle "Enable Notifications" on

You will receive Telegram messages whenever new brand changes are detected.

Step 10: Pause or Remove a Brand Monitor

Pause: Toggle the Status switch to Inactive. The brand stays in your list but stops being scanned.

Remove: Click the trash icon to permanently delete the brand monitor.

Summary

Brand monitoring runs daily. Each scan compares the current domain landscape against the previous snapshot and reports additions, drops, updates, and discoveries.

For more information, visit the Brand Monitoring product page.