Brand Protection (core) / brand protection services
Hands-on support for teams that need brand protection work to move from alert queues to resolved actions.
Most brand-protection programmes fail not because the alerts are wrong, but because the inventory underneath them is incomplete. Domains, marks, ccTLDs, marketplace identities and app-store listings live in different systems and accumulate over years; without one auditable picture, leadership cannot tell what is core, what is defensive and what is noise.
Decisions get made on the loudest alert rather than the most exposed asset. Renewal budgets drift, defensive coverage thins out in the markets that matter, and abuse cases queue without a clear owner. The cost is not the alerts themselves, it is the work that a complete inventory would have made unnecessary.
We build the inventory once, classify the assets by criticality and jurisdiction, name an internal owner per class, and connect each asset to the enforcement route that actually fits it. The output is a portfolio map leadership can present at a budget review, not a spreadsheet that ages between audits.
Teams typically engage when a marketplace listing forces a decision, an acquired company brings an unmapped portfolio, or leadership asks for an external review of brand exposure across markets. The first conversation is not about volume of takedowns; it is about which assets matter and why.
Method
The method starts from the asset inventory, maps market exposure, assigns owners per class and defines the decision route. The sequence is the basis on which every subsequent alert is evaluated and routed.
Inventory marks, brand-critical domains, regional ccTLDs, app and marketplace identities. Tag each asset by business criticality, jurisdiction and accountable owner.
Map exposure across registrar/registry coverage, marketplace listings, social handles, paid-search competition and abuse history. Classify each item as priority, monitor or accept.
Connect every asset class to a named owner across legal, brand, IT, security and corporate affairs. Where two functions claim the same artefact, escalate the conflict.
Hand back a leadership-ready route: what to enforce now, what to monitor, what to defensively register, what to retire, with a time horizon and a decision threshold for re-review.
Operating model
The diagram makes the decision path inspectable: signals, owners, evidence and outputs for brandprotection.services.
The output is a decision pack: domain and mark inventory, exposure map across priority markets and marketplaces, asset classification (core, defensive, watch-only, retire), per-class owners and enforcement routes with a time horizon. The pack is designed for budget review and recurring audits.
What the first scope contains
The first advisory scope for a brand protection programme covers: inventory of domains and associated marks, exposure map across strategic ccTLDs and priority marketplaces, asset classification (core, defensive, watch-only, retire), owner map across legal, brand, IT, security and operations, and enforcement routes with time horizons and re-review thresholds. The output is a decision pack leadership can take into the annual budget or an external audit.
Executive context
Brand portfolio governance is not a catalogue of domain names: it is a map of critical assets, priority markets and accountable owners. Leadership should know which marks and domains are core, which ccTLDs cover the strategic markets, which abuses are already documented, and who across legal, IT, security and operations is accountable for the response. The request form qualifies how many of these points are already consolidated and how many need a dedicated work scope.
Form readiness check
A CIO or brand leadership can use the request form as the entry point to the programme. A brand manager, legal counsel or IT lead should use the request form when the domain portfolio has no auditable inventory, when a core mark is exposed on multiple ccTLDs without defensive coverage, when a third-party registration is producing customer confusion in a priority market, or when leadership needs a single decision frame across legal, brand and operations.
Operating path
Brand protection is a portfolio decision before it is a takedown activity. Contact the dotNice team to build the asset inventory, map market exposure, align internal owners and define the decision route for the next quarter.
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The form qualifies the existing portfolio, the priority markets and the internal functions involved. Provide useful references to anticipate the first conversation.