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Brand protection · DTC

Someone is selling
under your name.

For direct-to-consumer brands whose products travel faster than their official storefronts. We find the clone shops, copycat listings and lookalike domains trading on your name — grade every finding against evidence, and file nothing without your written approval.

The first scan is free. No annual lock-in. Built for brands big on TikTok and thin on official marketplace storefronts.

What we do

Brand protection,
without the padding.

RIHTAN is a brand protection service for direct-to-consumer brands. We scan marketplaces, social storefronts and lookalike domains for copies of your brand, verify every finding by hand, and file takedowns on your authorization.

$ rihtan sweep --brand ████████
 generating variants ······· 660
 resolving against authoritative DNS ··· 61 live
 fetching storefronts, capturing evidence
 ████████-shop.com — clone storefront · high confidence
 official████████.net — “© 2026 ████████” in footer
○ ████████.com — different line of business → human review
○ 16 parked or dead — reported as parked, not threats
 10 findings queued for your approval

A real first sweep, redacted —see the report it produced.

Detection

Wide, and inexpensive to run

Machines are good at finding matches. That part costs little, so we don't sell it as if it were the product.

Judgement

Where the work actually is

Deciding which match is an infringement you can act on takes a person, a legal basis, and a willingness to throw findings away.

Enforcement

Filed, tracked, reported

The notice, the evidence pack, the follow-up and the outcome — sent by you from a ready-to-file pack, or by us on your authority. Approved by you either way.

The problem, plainly

Copies outlive
your patience.

In published industry data, a copy takes a median of 11.4 daysto come down on TikTok Shop, against 3.2 days on Amazon. If your brand isn't officially on those channels, every day of that gap is your traffic and your reputation, spent by someone else.

From a live scan, 9 August 2026

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

A careful search by hand had found four sites. The sweep found ten.

The first scan is free

Send your brand name and official domains. We run one pass and send back what we find — graded, with evidence, at no cost and with no contract to sign first.

How it works

Four steps.
A human in every one.

Detection is cheap and machines are good at it. Deciding what is actually actionable is the hard part, and that is where the work lives.

DetectVerifyRemoveReport— a person at every step.
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 · Verify

Grade by hand

Every candidate is reviewed by a person. Parked domains and legitimate competitors are dropped; anything that matched on name but looks like an unrelated business is shown to you separately, flagged, and never counted as an infringement.

03 · Remove

File on your word

We prepare the notice, the evidence pack and the platform paperwork. You approve. Then it goes out — sent by you from a ready-to-file pack, or by us under your written authority.

04 · Report

Delivered in Slack

Findings, filings and outcomes arrive in your channel. Quiet weeks get a message too, so silence never reads as a system that stopped working.

Our standard

A match is not
an infringement.

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

Gate 01 — Right

Do you hold a valid right here?

A registered mark in the region, or a copyright in the images and copy being used. No right, no case — and we'd rather tell you that than pad a report.

Gate 02 — Evidence

Would a platform accept it?

Timestamped capture, the live URL, and a side-by-side a reviewer can act on without coming back with questions.

Gate 03 — Authority

Are we authorized to file?

In writing, from you, per case. Everything else waits on a watchlist until it stops 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 filing target instead: under 24 hours on authorized cases.

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 shops with the brand's logo, product photography and real product names.

61
Live domains found
10
Active clone storefronts
2
False positives, caught by a human
  • The tellOn a clone of another brand in the same sweep, a fleece sweater was listed at $17,700 — a scraper that multiplied by a hundred and nobody proofread.
  • The claimFive carried “© 2026 <brand>. All rights reserved.” in the footer, on a site the brand has never owned.
  • The false positivesA flooring company in another country and a genealogical society, both sharing the brand's word. Both scored above our threshold, both filed nothing — a machine alone would have sent those notices.
Sample finding — as it appears in your report, redacted
Domain██████████-shop.com — live storefront, not owned by the brand
EvidenceFull-page capture, the brand's product names in listings, and “© 2026 <brand>. All rights reserved.” in the footer
GradeHigh confidence — meets our filing threshold on all three gates
StatusAwaiting the brand's written authorization. Nothing is filed without it.

View the full sample report — this scan, redacted

Start here

Find out what's out there.

Send your brand name and your official domains. We run one pass over the covered surfaces and send back what we find — the confirmed, the uncertain, and the all-clear, labeled as such.

The first scan is free. No obligation, no contract to sign first.