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{{CompanyInfo|
| logo            = MarkMonitorLogo.JPG
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| logo            = 120-px mm logo rgb logo small.jpg
| type            = Privately Held
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| type            = Publicly traded under Clarivate Analytics (NYSE:CCC)
| industry        = Internet, Brand protection
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| industry        = Internet, Corporate Domain Registration
 
| founded        = San Francisco, CA, 1998
 
| founded        = San Francisco, CA, 1998
| founders        = [[Faisal Shah]]
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| founders        = Faisal Shah
 
| ownership      = Clarivate Analytics
 
| ownership      = Clarivate Analytics
| headquarters    = 303 Second Street, Suite 800N<br/>San Francisco, CA 94107
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| headquarters    = 3540 E Longwing Ln #300<br/>Meridian, Idaho 83642
| country        =  
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| country        = USA
| businesses      =  
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| businesses      = domain portfolio management, acquisition services, enhanced security
| products        = Domain Management, Online Trademark Protection, Online Channel Protection, AntiPhishing Solutions
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| products        = Corporate domain registration and related services
| employees      = 180 (2008)
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| employees      = 115 (2020)
| revenue        = $30.0M (2008)
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| revenue        = $67.0M (2018)
 
| website        = [http://MarkMonitor.com MarkMonitor.com]
 
| website        = [http://MarkMonitor.com MarkMonitor.com]
| blog            =  
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| blog            = https://www.markmonitor.com/mmblog/domain-management/
| facebook        =  
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| facebook        = https://www.facebook.com/MarkMonitor/
| linkedin        =  
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| linkedin        = https://www.linkedin.com/company/markmonitor/
 
| twitter        = MarkMonitor
 
| twitter        = MarkMonitor
| keypeople      = [[Statton Hammock]], V.P. Global Policy & Industry Development
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| keypeople      = [[Statton Hammock]], V.P., Head of IP Strategy, Gov't & Industry Relations
 
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'''MarkMonitor''' is an internet-based company that provides enterprise brand protection solutions and services.  It was founded in 1998 and is headquartered at San Francisco, California, with regional offices and operations centers in London, Boise, New York, and Washington, D.C. <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/companies/markmonitor LinkedIn]</ref>
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'''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 brandsThe 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>  
 
 
As of July, 2012, MarkMonitor has over 700,000 domain names under its management.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/9838-thomson-reuters-buys-markmonitor Thomson Reuters buys MarkMonitor, domainincite.com]</ref> It safeguards the brands of companies like Facebook<ref> [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Facebook-Targeted-in-Spam-Scam-603252/ E Week]</ref> and the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:MarkMonitor Wikimedia Foundation]</ref> MarkMonitor also has strategic alliances with [[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo|Yahoo!]], [[AOL|America Online Inc.]], [[Kroll]], [[The Steele Foundation]], [[Earthlink]], [[LexisNexis]], and the [[Anti-Phishing Working Group]].<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=3786391 Bloomsberg Business Week]</ref>  
 
 
 
Mark Monitor employs robots operating from a wide range of servers hosted by major providers including Google.
 
 
 
While MarkMonitor's business purpose is protection against unauthorized use of intellectual property or web resources, the company employs techniques to avoid routine digital protection measures such as [http://www.robotstxt.org/robots.txt robots.txt] files, to ensure it can gain access to web content without the consent of the owners. MarkMonitor robots also routinely scrape web sites without issuing [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html referer fields] which is considered a security risk as blank referer fields are generally associated with malicious attacks.
 
  
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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==
 
==History==
  
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*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>
 
*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>
  
*2017- MarkMonitor was acquired for an undisclosed sum by Clarivate Analytics[</ref> https://domainnamewire.com/2016/10/04/markmonitor-now-part-clarivate-analytics/ w <ref>
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*2017- MarkMonitor was acquired for an undisclosed sum by [https://domainnamewire.com/2016/10/04/markmonitor-now-part-clarivate-analytics Clarivate Analytics]
 
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*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>
  
 
==Product And Services==
 
==Product And Services==
*Domain Management: Domain Management establishes brands online including safety and security services with domain managements services
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*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}}
 
 
*MarkMonitor Brand Protection™ : Offers to eliminate fraudulent use of companies brands online to safeguard brand equity, web traffic, marketing investments, and revenue from paid search scams, unauthorized channels, counterfeit, pirated and grey market sales, false association, cybersquatting, and other online threats.
 
 
 
*AntiFraud Solutions: offers to protect enterprises and their customers from phishing and malware attacks as it predicts detects, blocks, monitors and shuts down phishing and malware sites.
 
 
 
==References==
 
{{reflist}}
 
  
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
 
* [http://markmonitor.com/index.php/ MarkMonitor Corporate Website]
 
* [http://markmonitor.com/index.php/ MarkMonitor Corporate Website]
  
[[Category: Companies]]
 
 
[[Category: Registrars]]
 
[[Category: Registrars]]
 
[[Category:Corporate Brand Protection]]
 
[[Category:Corporate Brand Protection]]

Latest revision as of 18:59, 6 August 2024

120-px mm logo rgb logo small.jpg
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: TwitterIcon.png@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]

  • 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]
  • 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
  • PR Newswire
  • Yahoo Finance!
  • SC Magazine
  • All Business.com
  • Tech Crunch
  • Thomson Reuters buys MarkMonitor, domainincite.com
  • PR Newswire, Nov. 2019
  • External Links[edit | edit source]