Introducing Managed Takedown Services
Phishing domains, typosquats, homoglyph attacks, lookalike infrastructure. We file the takedown, escalate it, and follow up — until the domain is suspended or definitively rejected.
Whiteintel Team
Product
Detection without removal is just expensive monitoring. Today we're launching Managed Takedown Services — WhiteIntel analysts who file, escalate, and resolve domain takedowns end-to-end across registrars, hosts, and CDNs worldwide.
Customers have been asking us the same question for two years: "You found the phishing site — now what?" The honest answer used to be a link to the registrar's abuse form and a wish of good luck. That's over.
To start, we're scoping the service to phishing and lookalike domain takedowns — the highest-volume, highest-impact threat surface for most of our customers. We chose depth over breadth: 200+ direct relationships with registrars, hosts, and CDNs, an analyst team that knows each provider's abuse desk by name, and a queue built around 24-hour median response.
The takedown problem nobody talks about
Most security teams discover a phishing domain or impersonating account, then realize the actual removal work is its own job:
- Identify the right contact at the registrar, host, registry, CDN, or platform.
- Assemble evidence in the format each abuse desk wants.
- File the request and wait — sometimes hours, sometimes weeks.
- If ignored, escalate to upstream providers, second-line contacts, or DMCA agents.
- Track every reply and prove resolution to compliance, legal, and execs.
What we take down
The service covers every flavor of phishing and lookalike domain pretending to be your brand — from obvious typosquats to nation-state-grade homoglyph attacks:
Typosquatting & Misspellings
Common-typo domains targeting your brand — extra letters, swapped characters, missing dashes (acme-suport.com, acmme.com). Filed with the registrar the same day they're flagged.
Homoglyph & IDN Attacks
Visually identical Unicode lookalikes — Latin i swapped for Cyrillic і, accented characters, lookalike scripts. High-priority because the human eye can't catch them; escalated as deceptive-similarity abuse.
TLD Variants & Subdomain Abuse
your-brand.co, your-brand.support, your-brand.app — and abusive subdomains under compromised hosts. Filed with the registrar or host based on attribution.
Active Phishing Infrastructure
Domains with active MX records, hosting cloned login pages, or running credential-harvesting kits. Critical-priority queue — filed simultaneously with registrar, host, and CDN to maximize takedown speed.
Not in scope (yet): fake social media accounts, rogue mobile apps, leaked credential dumps, and counterfeit marketplace listings. We're focused on getting domain takedowns industry-leading first; broader brand-abuse coverage is on the roadmap.
How a takedown actually flows
Every case follows the same four stages:
WhiteIntel surfaces the suspicious domain — through your lookalike-domain monitoring or by your team flagging it via the platform.
Our analysts assemble evidence (WHOIS, DNS, screenshots, content classification) and file the takedown request with the registrar abuse desk, hosting provider, and CDN — formatted the way each provider wants it.
If the first request stalls, we escalate to second-line abuse contacts, upstream providers, the registry, and legal channels. We don't wait — we follow it up.
When the domain is suspended (or definitively rejected), we close the case with a full timeline, evidence package, and the next recommended action.
The numbers we're holding ourselves to
Why a managed service, not just another button?
We considered shipping a "self-service takedown" feature. Push a button, we file the form. We built it, dogfooded it, and killed it — because it solved the wrong problem.
The 4–6 hours per takedown isn't filling out the form. It's the parts before and after: identifying the right contact, packaging evidence to that provider's spec, tracking responses, escalating when ignored, proving resolution. A button doesn't help with any of that. A team does.
So Managed Takedown is exactly that: a team. You queue the asset; we own the case until it's closed. Every action lands in your dashboard with a timestamp, every reply from the provider gets attached, and every resolution comes with a receipt your compliance team can reference next year.
How to start using it
Managed Takedown lives under the Brand Protection page in the platform, and is available as an add-on on Enterprise and Threat Intelligence plans. There are two ways to queue a case:
- From a detected lookalike domain — open any lookalike domain WhiteIntel has flagged for you and click Request Takedown. The case is created with the WHOIS, DNS, and screenshot evidence already attached.
- Ad hoc — head to the Takedowns subtab inside Brand Protection and submit a domain manually. Useful when your team spots a phishing site through another channel and wants us to file the abuse request anyway.
Either way, the case lands in the same shared queue with the same SLA, the same evidence packaging, and the same per-stage timeline you can audit later.
New to WhiteIntel? Reach out and we'll scope your first month — including a same-week onboarding for any active phishing or impersonation campaigns you're already dealing with.
Hand off the takedown workload.
Stop chasing abuse forms. We file, follow up, and close the case — you get the receipt.