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Brand protection · DTC

Someone is selling
under your name.

Domain names shown are a demo brand on a domain RIHTAN owns. The figures beside them come from a real first scan, with the brand withheld.

For direct-to-consumer brands whose products travel faster than their official storefronts. RIHTAN scans the lookalike domains trading on your name every week, along with the storefronts running on them, grades every match against what the page actually shows, captures the record, and alerts you when something new appears. Marketplace and social storefront monitoring are next, not included yet.

Watch, one minuteA demo on a domain we own: RIHTAN scans, grades, and updates the results page automatically.

The first scan is free, no annual lock-in.

What we do

Brand protection,
without the padding.

RIHTAN Monitor is monitoring software for direct-to-consumer brands. It scans lookalike domains and clone storefronts for copies of your brand, grades every potential match against the captured listing, and puts the record in your hands. What happens next is your call.

$ rihtan sweep --brand ████████
 generating variants ······· 660
 resolving against public DNS ·········· 61 live
 fetching storefronts, capturing pages
 ████████-shop.com · clone storefront · high confidence
 official████████.net · “© 2026 ████████” in footer
○ ████████.com · different line of business → flagged as doubtful
○ 16 parked or dead · reported as parked, not threats
 10 matches on your results page

A real first sweep, redacted.See the report it produced.

Detection

Wide, and on a schedule

Lookalike domains and clone storefronts, swept for your name and your product names, on the day you subscribe and every week after. Marketplace and social surfaces are added one at a time, each with its real status published.

Grading

Against the page, not the name

A match is scored on what the capture shows: your marks, your product names, your image files. Name-only lookalikes are flagged as doubtful and kept out of the count.

Your call

Recorded, then handed over

Every match comes with the capture, the hosting and registrar details associated with it, and a link to that party's own reporting portal. You review, you decide, you export. RIHTAN sends nothing on your behalf.

The problem, plainly

Copies outlive
your patience.

A clone store does not announce itself. It sits on a domain one letter away from yours, runs your photography and your copyright line, and sells until a customer complains. Every week it stays up is your traffic and your reputation, spent by someone else.

From a live scan, August 9, 2026

Ten storefronts selling one apparel brand's catalog. Five printed “© 2026 <brand>. All rights reserved.” in the footer.

A careful manual search had found four sites. The sweep found ten.

The first scan is free

Send your brand name and official domains. The automated scan runs one pass and emails a generated summary: matches per surface and a few redacted examples, at no cost and with no card to enter. Full captures, exports and weekly monitoring come with the subscription.

How it works

Four steps.
Your decision at the end of them.

Detection runs on a schedule and grading runs against the capture. What to do with a match is the part no scanner should decide for you, so it doesn't.

DetectGradeRecordAlert· your call at the end.
01 · Detect

Sweep the surfaces

Lookalike domains and clone sites, scanned for your brand name and your product names. Marketplace and social surfaces are being added one at a time, and each one's real status is published on its page.

02 · Grade

Graded against the capture

Every candidate is scored against what the page actually shows: your marks, your product names, your image files, a copyright line in your name. Parked domains are labeled parked. Anything that matched on name but looks like an unrelated business is flagged as doubtful and never counted as a copy.

03 · Record

Captured and kept

Each match is stored with a full-page capture, the live URL, a timestamp and the hosting and registrar details associated with the captured page, plus a link to the reporting portal that party publishes. Export it any time.

04 · Alert

Your results page, and your inbox

Matches live on a results page you open with an email link, no password. New ones arrive by email as they surface; quiet weeks get a note too, so silence never reads as a scanner that stopped.

Our standard

A match is not
a verdict.

Most tools count matches, because matches are easy to count. Before anything is counted for you, it has to clear three gates.

Gate 01 · Marks

Does the page carry your marks?

Your name, your product names, your image files, a copyright line in your name. A name-only resemblance is not enough; it is flagged as doubtful, not counted.

Gate 02 · Capture

Is the record complete?

Timestamped full-page capture, the live URL, and the hosting and registrar details associated with the captured page. If a page could not be reached, the record says so instead of guessing.

Gate 03 · Your call

Is the decision yours?

Always. RIHTAN grades and records; it does not decide what is unlawful and sends nothing on your behalf. Doubtful matches wait on a watchlist until they stop being a maybe.

What we don't promise

A removal date. The platform's queue isn't ours to control, and any vendor quoting you one is quoting a number they can't hold. Our own target instead: new matches on your results page within 24 hours of a scan, with the capture attached.

What we won't call a fake

A similar silhouette, a competitor in your category, or a business that happens to share your word in another language. We've caught all three in real scans, and let all three go.

What we report even when it's boring

Parked domains, dead links and pages we couldn't reach. “We didn't see it” is not the same as “it isn't there,” and a scan that hides its gaps isn't a scan.

From a live scan

What a first pass turns up.

A single apparel brand, scanned once. Name withheld; the point is the shape of the problem.

Case file · domain surface

Ten storefronts. Seven
calling themselves “official.”

Sixty-one live domains behind the brand's name. Sixteen were parked or dead and we said so. Ten were running storefronts with the brand's logo, product photography and real product names.

61
Live domains found
10
Active clone storefronts
2
Doubtful matches, flagged and kept out of the count
  • The tellOn a clone of another brand in the same sweep, a fleece sweater was listed at $17,700: a scraper multiplied the price by a hundred and nobody proofread it.
  • The claimFive carried “© 2026 <brand>. All rights reserved.” in the footer, on a site the brand has never owned.
  • The doubtful onesA flooring company in another country and a genealogical society, both sharing the brand's word. Both scored above the name threshold; both were flagged as “different line of business” and kept out of the count. A tool that only counts would have called them copies.
Sample finding, as it appears on your results page, redacted
Domain██████████-shop.com · live storefront, not owned by the brand
CaptureFull-page capture, the brand's product names in listings, and “© 2026 <brand>. All rights reserved.” in the footer
GradeHigh confidence · clears all three gates
StatusIn your record, with the host's and registrar's reporting pages linked. What happens next is the brand's decision.

View the full sample report (this scan, redacted)

Try it on a live site

Found a store you
don't trust?

FakeShopScan is a free tool we run for shoppers. Paste any store's address and it reads the domain's age, the brand name the page claims, and how the two fit together, then returns a verdict in seconds. The same signals our monitoring weighs, pointed at one site at a time.

Free, no sign-up, no card. Built and run by RIHTAN.

fakeshopscan.com · a real verdict, redacted

High risk. Registered 19 days ago, wraps a known brand's name in “official ██████ shop,” and claims a brand the domain doesn't own.

The other side of the same check

A storefront that has held its domain for years, names itself consistently and posts a working contact route comes back clean, and the page says so plainly: nothing alarming found.

Start here

Find out what's out there.

Send your brand name and your official domains. The automated scan runs one pass over the covered surfaces and emails a generated summary: the confirmed, the doubtful, and no matches detected on the surfaces reached, labeled as such.

The first scan is free. No card, no obligation to continue.