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Type:	Publicly traded under Clarivate Analytics (NYSE:CCC)
Industry:	Internet, Corporate Domain Registration
Founded:	San Francisco, CA, 1998
Founder(s):	Faisal Shah
Ownership:	Clarivate Analytics
Headquarters:	3540 E Longwing Ln #300 Meridian, Idaho 83642
Country:	USA
Businesses:	domain portfolio management, acquisition services, enhanced security
Products:	Corporate domain registration and related services
Employees:	115 (2020)
Revenue:	$67.0M (2018)
Website:	MarkMonitor.com
Blog:	https://www.markmonitor.com/mmblog/domain-management/
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/MarkMonitor/
LinkedIn:	https://www.linkedin.com/company/markmonitor/
Twitter:	@MarkMonitor
Key People
Statton Hammock, V.P., Head of IP Strategy, Gov't & Industry Relations

MarkMonitor is a corporate domain name registrar and portfolio manager and provider of domain related services to many of the world's most trafficked domain names and global brands. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Meridian, Idaho, with offices in London and Beijing.^[1] MarkMonitor is owned by parent company, Clarivate Analytics, a publicly traded company (NYSE:CCC) that holds scientific research data and other intellectual property management companies including Web of Science, Cortellis, TechStreet, Derwent, CompuMark, and Darts-IP.^[2]

As of January, 2020, MarkMonitor had over 935,000 domain names under its management.^[3] MarkMonitor is an active participant in ICANN's multi-stakeholder policy development process having representatives in the Registrar Stakeholder Group, the Intellectual Property Constituency and the Business Constituency.

History[edit | edit source]

1998- Faisal Shah founded MarkMonitor in San Francisco, CA .^[4]

2000- MarkMonitor became an ICANN accredited domain registrar. ^[5]

2001- MarkMonitor announced strategic alliance with Lexis-Nexis, a research solution provider company.^[6]

2002- MarkMonitor also formed a strategic alliance with Eversheds, an UK based law firm. ^[7]

2003- MarkMonitor announced a merger with Alldomains.com, a domain registration and management providing company from California. ^[8]

2004- MarkMonitor announced participation in a comprehensive effort to stop online fraud, sponsored by the FSTC. The other participants included America's largest financial institutions, like: Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Comerica, Visa USA, ABN AMRO, KeyBank, Capital One and University Bank, and others. ^[9]

2005- MarkMonitor signed partnership contracts with AOL to develop a new initiative to protect its users against phishing. ^[10]

2005- It was announced that MarkMonitor, with Cyota Inc. and Internet Identity , would regularly provide information on confirmed phishing websites as part of efforts to help enhance the protection offered by Microsoft. ^[11]

2005- MarkMonitor annouced to work with Open Technology Solutions (OTS) to provide anti-phishing and fraud protection services.^[12]

2006- MarkMonitor announced the closing of a $12 million venture capital investment led by Cargill Ventures. ^[13]

2006- MarkMonitor and Sports Marketing Surveys formed an alliance to protect the 2006 World Cup and Olympic Winter Games Brands online.^[14]

2008- MarkMonitor signed a deal with TUV Rheinland Group's Brand Risk Management service (BRM) to offer the customers brand protection solution.^[15] U.S. Central Credit Union and its 26 member corporate credit unions deployed anti-phishing solutions from MarkMonitor in February 2008. ^[16]

2009- MarkMonitor announced AntiFraud Solutions, a patented technology that would enable brand owners to prevent, detect and respond to phishing and malware attacks. ^[17]

2010- MarkMonitor acquired DtecNet Software, a global anti-piracy company for an undisclosed amount of money. ^[18]

2012- MarkMonitor was acquired for an undisclosed sum by Thomson Reuters, as part of the company's new Intellectual Property & Science business unit.^[19]

2017- MarkMonitor was acquired for an undisclosed sum by Clarivate Analytics
2019 - MarkMonitor sells its brand protection business to OpSec Security.^[20]

Product And Services[edit | edit source]

Corporate Domain Registration and Management Services including portfolio management and optimization, registry locking, advance security protocols, DNS, gTLD blocking, anonymous acquisition services, and UDRP prosecution.

↑ MarkMonitor Website

↑ Clarivate Analytics Website

↑ DomainName Stats

↑ Bloomsberg Business Week

↑ American Executive

↑ The Free Library

↑ Information Today

↑ The Web Host Industry Review

↑ GOLIATH

↑ Softpedia

↑ Microsoft.com

↑ HighBeam.com

↑ PR Newswire

↑ Yahoo Finance!

↑ SC Magazine

↑ All Business.com

↑ Tech Crunch

↑ Thomson Reuters buys MarkMonitor, domainincite.com

↑ PR Newswire, Nov. 2019

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-MarkMonitor is a global leader in the fast-growing market for online corporate identity management and protection. It was founded in 1997 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, with regional offices and centers in London, Boise, Washington DC, and New York. They safeguard the brands of more than half of the Fortune 100, with companies including Facebook, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation.
+'''MarkMonitor''' is a corporate domain name registrar and portfolio manager and provider of domain related services to many of the world's most trafficked domain names and global brands.  The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Meridian, Idaho, with offices in London and Beijing.<ref>MarkMonitor [https://markmonitor.com/ Website]</ref>  MarkMonitor is owned by parent company, [https://clarivate.com/ ''Clarivate Analytics,''] a publicly traded company (NYSE:CCC) that holds scientific research data and other intellectual property management companies including Web of Science, Cortellis, TechStreet, Derwent, CompuMark, and Darts-IP.<ref>Clarivate Analytics [https://clarivate.com/ Website]</ref>
-It is one of the only companies out there offering enterprises the ability to both establish and secure their brands. MarkMonitor’s exclusive access to data, combined with its real-time prevention, detection and response, enables a more secure Internet experience for companies and the customers of those companies. MarkMonitor was the 43rd largest domain name registrar in terms of number of registered domains in 2007.
+As of January, 2020, MarkMonitor had over 935,000 domain names under its management.<ref>DomainName [https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/registrar/others Stats]</ref> MarkMonitor is an active participant in [[ICANN|ICANN's]] multi-stakeholder policy development process having representatives in the [[Registrar Stakeholder Group]], the [[Intellectual Property Constituency]] and the [[Business Constituency]].
+==History==
-== Domain Management ==
+*1998- [[Faisal Shah]] founded MarkMonitor in San Francisco, CA .<ref> [http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=3786492&privcapId=3786391&previousCapId=422760&previousTitle=The%20Nielsen%20Company%20B.V. Bloomsberg Business Week]</ref>
-With Domain Management, MarkMonitor provides the first step in establishing brands online. Domain Management gives complete visibility into the global domain space, allowing companies proactively seize opportunities, prevent others from undermining your brand and revenues, and efficiently manage domain names.
+*2000- MarkMonitor became an [[ICANN]] accredited domain registrar. <ref> [http://www.americanexecutive.com/archived-spotlights-industry/it/7401-markmonitor-keeping-watch American Executive] </ref>
+*2001- MarkMonitor announced strategic alliance with [[Lexis-Nexis]], a research solution provider company.<ref> [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lexis-Nexis+Announces+Strategic+Alliance+with+Markmonitor.-a074210943 The Free Library] </ref>
-'''Domain Management Highlights:'''
+*2002- MarkMonitor also formed a strategic alliance with [[Eversheds]], an UK based law firm. <ref> [http://www.infotoday.com/IT/apr02/news1.htm Information Today] </ref>
-- Ensures domains are safe with a “hardened” portal and a full suite of premium security solutions, including advanced security measures at the registrar level—and, security services to lock domains down to the registry level
+*2003- MarkMonitor announced a merger with [[Alldomains.com]],  a domain registration and management providing company from California. <ref> [http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/mar102203 The Web Host Industry Review] </ref>
-- Establishes and provides cost-effective enterprise-wide domain management, enabling secure registration of active and defensive domains from any location, leveraging the industry’s most powerful suite of ordering, tracking, transaction management, approval workflow, and documentation tools
+*2004- MarkMonitor announced  participation in a comprehensive effort to stop online fraud, sponsored by the FSTC. The other participants included America's largest financial institutions, like: Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Comerica, Visa USA, ABN AMRO, KeyBank, Capital One and University Bank, and others. <ref> [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-817373/MarkMonitor-Joins-Major-Financial-Institutions.html GOLIATH] </ref>
-- Provides domain status worldwide, identifying issues and opportunities quickly, easily, and proactively through a seamlessly consolidated domain view and the industry’s most comprehensive domain rules and requirements list
+*2005- MarkMonitor signed partnership contracts with AOL to develop a new initiative to protect its users against phishing. <ref> [http://news.softpedia.com/news/AOL-Is-Starting-the-Anti-Phishing-Offensive-9957.shtml Softpedia] </ref>
-- Intelligently identifies and closes gaps when they occur using the industry-first MarkMonitor Trademark Lookup and other intuitive tools
+*2005- It was announced that MarkMonitor, with [[Cyota]] Inc. and [[Internet Identity]] , would regularly provide information on confirmed phishing websites as part of efforts to help enhance the protection offered by Microsoft. <ref> [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/nov05/11-17EnhancesPhishingProtectionPR.mspx Microsoft.com] </ref>
-- Enables efficient domain recovery when M&A, product launches, and other events dictate, with services from the trusted leader in domain portfolio management for large, global corporations
+*2005- MarkMonitor annouced to work with [[Open Technology Solutions]] (OTS) to provide anti-phishing and fraud protection services.<ref> [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-139428801.html HighBeam.com] </ref>
-- Prevents illicit domain abuse tactics—such as cybersquatting—by using defensive domain registration to block others from exploiting domain names associated with your brand
+*2006- MarkMonitor announced the closing of a $12 million venture capital investment led by Cargill Ventures. <ref> [http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-11-2006/0004359554&EDATE= PR Newswire] </ref>
+*2006- MarkMonitor and Sports Marketing Surveys formed an alliance to protect the 2006 World Cup and Olympic Winter Games Brands online.<ref>[http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=176699 PR Newswire] </ref>
-== MarkMonitor Brand Protection™ ==
-MarkMonitor Brand Protection helps to eliminate confusing and fraudulent use of companies brands online. Leveraging the industry’s widest access to online data sources and continuously monitoring more Internet channels than any other solution, it safeguards brand equity, web traffic, marketing investments, revenue and reputation from paid search scams, unauthorized channels, counterfeit, pirated and grey market sales, false association, cybersquatting and other online threats.
+*2008- MarkMonitor signed a deal with TUV Rheinland Group's Brand Risk Management service (BRM) to offer the customers brand protection solution.<ref>[http://in.biz.yahoo.com/081105/138/6yz4x.html Yahoo Finance!]</ref> U.S. Central Credit Union and its 26 member corporate credit unions deployed anti-phishing solutions from MarkMonitor in February 2008. <ref>[http://www.scmagazineus.com/us-central-credit-union-deploys-markmonitor/article/105091/ SC Magazine] </ref>
+*2009- MarkMonitor announced AntiFraud Solutions, a patented technology that would enable brand owners to prevent, detect and respond to phishing and malware attacks. <ref>[http://www.allbusiness.com/crime-law-enforcement-corrections/criminal-offenses/11821788-1.html All Business.com] </ref>
-'''MarkMonitor Brand Protection™ Highlights:'''
+*2010- MarkMonitor acquired [[DtecNet Software]], a global anti-piracy company for an undisclosed amount of money. <ref> [http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/18/markmonitor-dtecnet/ Tech Crunch] </ref>
-- Safeguards the value of your marketing investments—while optimizing return on ad spend and other outlays—by preventing pay-per-click scams, SEO manipulation and cybersquatting from diverting web traffic to unaffiliated sites or to illicit sites which associate your brand with undesirable content
+*2012- MarkMonitor was acquired for an undisclosed sum by Thomson Reuters, as part of the company's new Intellectual Property & Science business unit.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/9838-thomson-reuters-buys-markmonitor Thomson Reuters buys MarkMonitor, domainincite.com]</ref>
-- Detects the widest range of abuses more quickly and comprehensively by monitoring more online data sources—auctions, B2B/B2C exchanges, eCommerce sites, paid search, social media, message boards, email and more—with greater frequency
+*2017- MarkMonitor was acquired for an undisclosed sum by [https://domainnamewire.com/2016/10/04/markmonitor-now-part-clarivate-analytics Clarivate Analytics]
+*2019 - MarkMonitor sells its brand protection business to OpSec Security.<ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/opsec-security-agrees-to-acquire-the-markmonitor-brand-protection-business-from-clarivate-analytics-300951615.html PR Newswire, Nov. 2019]</ref>
-- Protects revenues and profits by shutting—and keeping—down sites selling grey market, pirated or counterfeit goods and reducing false warranty and customer service claims
+==Product And Services==
+*Corporate Domain Registration and Management Services including portfolio management and optimization, registry locking, advance security protocols, DNS, gTLD blocking, anonymous acquisition services, and UDRP prosecution. {{reflist}}
-- Helps to prevent brand reputation erosion by defending against false association on websites and social media sites
+== External Links ==
+* [http://markmonitor.com/index.php/ MarkMonitor Corporate Website]
-- Pinpoints and prioritizes abuse through advanced analytics and patented detection technology—scoring algorithms and matching copyrighted images
-- Enables greater brand protection impact with less effort by identifying high-priority brand abuse, automating enforcement measures and simplifying enterprise-wide collaboration
+[[Category: Registrars]]
+[[Category:Corporate Brand Protection]]
-- Builds confidence in your brand by warning customers away from infringing sites, until enforcement measures take full effect, through the industry-first MarkMonitor Trusted Brand Broadcast System™
-- Delivers quick results with minimum investment of resources by leveraging the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model and Managed Services
-== AntiFraud Solutions ==
-MarkMonitor’s AntiFraud Solutions provides the industry’s most comprehensive solution for protecting enterprises and their customers from phishing and malware attacks. The solutions feature a unique, multi-layered approach for predicting, detecting, blocking, monitoring and shutting down phishing and malware sites. Unlike other solutions, MarkMonitor AntiFraud Solutions focus on preventative measures and leverage the broadest industry alliances for protecting brandholders and consumers.
-'''AntiFraud Solutions Highlights:'''
-- Provide multiple lines of defense—unlike other solutions, both preventive and reactive—against phishing and malware attacks
-- Prevent attacks before they happen with Early Warning System® and tools for uncovering fraudsters while they’re still in the planning stages of an attack
-- Detect attacks before your customers do by monitoring and analyzing the industry’s widest range of intelligence sources, including spam feeds from the top ISPs, honeypots, and desktop sensors, plus antivirus vendor partners and other industry feeds
-- Mitigate loss and brand risk with early detection and response—minimizing the number of victims and related support costs—by sharing malware and phishing alerts via the broadest fraudcasting network of ISP’s, browsers, email providers and security vendor partners
-- Achieve shutdowns in a fraction of the industry average time by leveraging 24x7 security operations and the broadest technical shutdown network
-- Halt even complex rock phish and fast flux DNS attacks by shutting them down at the root level—at the domain—thanks to the domain registrar advantages MarkMonitor enjoys
-- Quickly identify targeted malware to enable internal team monitoring in support of forensics and credential recovery – then shut the sites down
-- Arm enterprises with critical intelligence for ongoing, proactive defense, with a web portal for real-time monitoring, reports on industry-wide fraud activity, and trend reports to help keep executives informed
-MarkMonitor has partnered with companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, America Online (AOL) , Kroll, DtecNet, The Steele Foundation, Earthlink, LexisNexis, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group. They have also worked closely with numerous industry leaders and associations such as the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG), Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), Bank Administration Institute (BAI), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), International Anticounterfeiting Coalition (IACC), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), International Trademark Association (INTA), Online Trust Alliance (OTA), and Shop.org.