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Takedowns for fake and lookalike websites

Get fake copies of your website taken down.

We identify the registrar and hosting provider behind the fake site, capture the evidence and draft every takedown report for your approval. Once you approve, we send the reports and chase them until the site is gone.

Free check · No account · About 20 seconds · Nothing is sent to anyone

Product walkthrough · 47 s

The takedown process

  1. Found (current)

    You paste the fake site's address, or monitoring detects it.

  2. 2

    Evidence

    Screenshot, archived copy, HTML and hotlink proof are captured.

  3. 3

    Drafted

    Up to nine reports are drafted with the facts filled in.

  4. 4

    Approved

    A named person on your side approves each report.

  5. 5

    Reported

    Email reports are sent and form reports submitted.

  6. 6

    Down

    The site is rechecked daily and chased until it is gone.

01Warning signs

Signs your website has been copied.

Fake websites take real money, passwords and personal details from people who trust you, then disappear and reappear on a new domain. The damage lands on your name, your reviews and your inbox.

If any of these sound familiar, act today. The longer a fake site stays live, the more of your customers it reaches.

  1. A customer asks about an order, a login or a payment you have no record of.

    They used a site that looked like yours, and you only hear about it once something has gone wrong.

  2. An ad uses your name but links to a different website.

    Fake sites are often promoted with paid ads or phishing emails aimed at your own customers.

  3. Someone sends you a link that is almost your address.

    One letter is different, a word like “outlet” or “sale” has been added, or the ending has changed to .shop, .store or .co.

  4. Your content, logo or photos appear on a website you do not run.

    The images are often loaded straight from your own servers, which is evidence in itself.

  5. The fake site asks visitors for something yours never would.

    A login page that is not yours, a card form, a donation page, or a booking form that harvests enquiries.

02How it works

Three steps from fake site to takedown, with you approving every report.

01

Check the fake site free

Paste the address of the fake site. In about 20 seconds we identify the registrar, the hosting provider, whether Cloudflare is hiding the host, and exactly who to report it to.

  • Registrar and registration date
  • Hosting network, or Cloudflare
  • Abuse contacts for each, partly masked
  • No account, and nothing is sent

Free check result · 19.4 s

Live

acmepaints-outlet.shop

is live. These are the people who can take it down.

Registered
9 days ago
Hosted by
Contoso Hosting
Status
HTTP 200
  • Registrar abuse desk

    Northwind Domains, LLC

  • Hosting provider abuse desk

    Contoso Hosting (AS64500)

  • Google Safe Browsing

    Chrome warning page

  • Microsoft SmartScreen

    Edge and Windows warning

02

We capture evidence and draft the reports

We capture the evidence a registrar or host needs to act, then draft a report for every party that can take the fake site down or block it, with your details and the facts already filled in.

  • Full-page screenshot, archived copy and rendered HTML
  • Proof of images and files loaded from your own site
  • Up to nine reports, each in the format its recipient expects

Exhibit list · ACME-2026-0042

Evidence
https://acmepaints-outlet.shop/
  1. A

    Full-page screenshot

    PNG · 1440×6120

    sha256 9f2c…a41e
  2. B

    Wayback Machine copy

    web.archive.org/web/2026…

    archived
  3. C

    Rendered HTML

    212 KB

    sha256 03be…77d0
  4. D

    Hotlinked assets

    38 files from acmepaints.co.uk

    proof

03

You approve, we send and chase

You read each report and approve it. Email reports are sent from our system with your reply-to address, and form reports are ready to paste. We then recheck the site every day and draft the follow-ups.

  • Nothing is sent without a named approver
  • You remain the signatory on every report
  • Daily rechecks and follow-ups for 30 days

Registrar abuse report

Awaiting approval
Subject
[ACME-2026-0042] Phishing / fraud website report

Dear Abuse Team,

I am writing on behalf of Acme Paints Ltd, the operator of acmepaints.co.uk, to report that the domain acmepaints-outlet.shop, registered 2 October 2026 via Northwind Domains, LLC, is being used for a fraudulent website that impersonates our business.

Evidence: screenshot taken 11 Oct 2026 09:14; independent archive at web.archive.org/web/…; the page loads 38 images directly from our own site.

…

Signed by Sam Carter, Ecommerce Manager

Approve and send
03What's in a Takedown Pack

Reports to nine places that can take a fake site down, drafted for you.

Contents

Evidence

  • A

    Full-page screenshot

    The whole page, top to bottom, timestamped.

  • B

    Archived copy

    Saved to the Wayback Machine as an independent record that nobody can edit.

  • C

    Rendered HTML

    The page source as a browser saw it, stored with a checksum.

  • D

    Hotlinked-asset proof

    A list of the images and files the fake site loads straight from your own site.

  • E

    Registration and hosting record

    Registrar, registration date, IP addresses, network, Cloudflare status.

Drafted reports

  1. 01

    Registrar abuse desk

    Asks the company that sold the domain to suspend it. Usually the fastest route to taking the whole site offline.

    Email, sent by us
  2. 02

    Hosting provider abuse + DMCA notice

    Abuse report plus a notice with every statutory DMCA element, sent to the network the site runs on.

    Email, sent by us
  3. 03

    CloudflareOnly when the site is behind Cloudflare

    When the site is hiding behind Cloudflare, a report for Cloudflare's abuse form, which passes the complaint on to the real host.

    Form, copy and submit
  4. 04

    Google Safe Browsing

    Once accepted, Chrome shows its red warning page to anyone who tries to visit.

    Form, copy and submit
  5. 05

    Microsoft SmartScreen

    The same warning in Edge and Windows.

    Form, copy and submit
  6. 06

    Netcraft

    Feeds browser and security-vendor blocklists, and contacts hosts itself.

    Email, sent by us
  7. 07

    APWG

    The Anti-Phishing Working Group's exchange, used by security vendors and law enforcement.

    Email, sent by us
  8. 08

    Search-result removal

    A removal request for Google and Bing, with a check first so you only file it if the fake site is indexed.

    Form, copy and submit
  9. 09

    Action FraudUK brands

    The UK's national fraud reporting service. Gives you a crime reference to quote to banks and registrars.

    Form, copy and submit

Every pack also includes daily rechecks and follow-up reports for 30 days. Read the drafted reports in the sample pack.

04Your options

How Takedown Pack compares with doing it yourself or hiring a vendor.

You can report a fake site yourself, and our guides show how. You can also pay an enterprise brand-protection vendor. Takedown Pack sits in between: the research, evidence, drafting and follow-up are done for you, at a price for an organisation that is impersonated a few times a year rather than a few times a day.

Finding who to report to
YourselfRDAP, DNS and IP lookups by hand; Cloudflare hides the host.
Takedown PackDone in the free check, including sites behind Cloudflare.
EnterpriseDone for you.
Evidence
YourselfScreenshots and archive links you gather yourself.
Takedown PackScreenshot, archive, HTML and hotlink proof, captured on the spot.
EnterpriseCaptured.
Report wording
YourselfWork out what each abuse desk and form expects.
Takedown PackDrafted per recipient, DMCA elements included.
EnterpriseDrafted, often sent by the vendor.
Follow-ups
YourselfYou remember to chase. First reports are often ignored.
Takedown PackDaily rechecks and follow-ups for 30 days.
EnterpriseOngoing.
Who signs
YourselfYou.
Takedown PackYou. Nothing is sent without your approval.
EnterpriseOften the vendor, as your agent.
Cost
YourselfFree, plus hours of your time per site.
Takedown PackFree check, then a one-off fee per fake site.
EnterpriseUsually quote-only, often hundreds to thousands a month, on contract.

Enterprise pricing is based on the quotes our founder was given; most vendors do not publish prices.

Free check · about 20 seconds · no account

Check a fake site free.

Paste the address of the fake site. We identify the registrar, the hosting provider, whether it is hiding behind Cloudflare, and who to report it to.

  • — Nothing is sent to anyone
  • — Looked up from our servers, not your browser
  • — Your result is saved at a private link

We look the site up from our servers. Nothing is sent to anyone at this stage.

05Pricing

Pay once per fake site, or subscribe for monitoring.

Launch prices

Free check

£0

no account

Find out who can take the fake site down.

Takedown Pack

£149£99

launch price · one-off, per fake site

Everything needed to get one fake site taken down.

Monitor

£49/mo

billed monthly, cancel any time

Detect the next lookalike domain before your customers do.

Protect

£149/mo

billed monthly, cancel any time

For groups running several sites or brands.

Launch prices in GBP, including VAT. The price you see is the price you pay.

Compare plans
06Monitoring

Detect the next lookalike domain before your customers do.

Fake sites come back on new domains. Monitor checks for lookalikes of your domain every day: typo and lookalike-character variants, new security certificates as they are issued, and newly registered domains. Each candidate is scored, and you are alerted to the ones that matter.

  • — Typo and homoglyph variants
  • — Certificate transparency
  • — Newly registered domains
  • — Clone beacon for your site

Lookalike candidates · acmepaints.co.uk

Watching
  • acmepaints-outlet.shop

    CT log · dictionary

    92
    Open case
  • acmepaimts.co.uk

    Permutation · replacement

    71
    Open case
  • xn--acmepants-9db.com

    New domains · homoglyph

    58
    Watch
  • acme-paints.store

    CT log · hyphenation

    48
    Watch
  • acmepaintss.com

    Permutation · repetition

    22
    Watch
07Why we built it

“Fake copies of our own shops appeared on domains we had never seen, using our name and our product photos. It took us days to work out who to report them to, and the brand-protection vendors we approached quoted hundreds to thousands of pounds a month. We built Takedown Pack to do that work properly for a one-off price.”

L

Leo, founder

Ecommerce lead at a UK group of online art-supply retailers

08FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Is it legal to report a website that impersonates mine?

Yes. Registrars, hosting providers, Cloudflare, Google and Microsoft all run abuse and copyright reporting channels precisely so that rights holders can report sites that impersonate them or copy their content. What matters is that what you report is true. That is why you review and approve every report, and why you have to verify you own the real domain before anything can be sent.

Will the fake site really be taken down?

We cannot promise it, and nobody honestly can: registrars and hosts decide for themselves. What we can do is make each report as easy as possible to act on, with the right recipient, complete evidence, the wording each channel expects, and a polite follow-up when the first report is ignored, which is common. Browser warnings from Google and Microsoft often arrive independently of the host, so a fake site can stop reaching most visitors even before it is removed.

The fake site is behind Cloudflare. Can it still be reported?

Yes. Cloudflare is not the host; it sits in front of the host. The free check tells you whether the site is proxied through Cloudflare, and the pack includes the report for Cloudflare's abuse form, which passes complaints on to the real hosting provider. The registrar, browser blocklists and search engines do not depend on knowing the host at all.

How long does it take?

The free check takes about 20 seconds. The evidence and drafts are prepared automatically as soon as you start the pack, so you can approve and send the same day. After that it depends on the recipients: some act within a day, some need chasing, and some never respond. We recheck the site daily and draft follow-ups for 30 days, and you can see each report's status throughout.

The domain owner is anonymous. Does that matter?

No. Most domains have their owner details redacted for privacy, and fraudsters use fake details anyway. You do not need to know who is behind the site. Reports go to the companies that provide the domain and the hosting, and they can act on their own customer.

Are reports sent in my name?

Yes. You, or someone you name in your team, are the signatory. Email reports are sent from our system with your address as the reply-to, so the abuse desk replies to you. Form-based reports (Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, search removal, Action Fraud) are prepared for you to paste and submit yourself.

Can anything be sent without me seeing it?

No. Every report waits for a named person to read the exact text and approve it. There is no auto-send. Before the first report can go anywhere you also verify that you control your real domain, with a DNS record or a meta tag.

Do I need a registered trade mark?

It helps, and the reports will cite it if you have one, but it is not required. A fake website usually copies your photos and text, which you own the copyright in automatically, and impersonating a business to take payments or details is fraud whether or not the name is registered.

What data do you keep?

The fake site's address, the lookups about it, the evidence we capture and the reports you approve. For your account, your email and the signatory details that appear on reports. Card payments are handled by our payment provider; we never see card numbers. The privacy notice has the detail.

Start a takedown

Check the fake site free, then get it taken down.

Paste the address of the fake site. In about 20 seconds you will know who registered it, who hosts it and who can take it down. No account and no card are needed.