MarkMonitor

Type:	Privately Held
Industry:	Internet, Brand protection
Founded:	San Francisco, CA (1998)
Headquarters:	303 Second Street, Suite 800N San Francisco, CA 94107
Products:	Domain Management, Online Trademark Protection, Online Channel Protection, AntiPhishing Solutions
Employees:	180 (2008)
Revenue:	$30.0M (2008)
Website:	http://MarkMonitor.com
Key People
Faisal Shah (Chairman) Irfan Salim (CEO) Chris Bounds (COO) Ted Sergott (SVP of Eng) Kurt Wedel (SVP of Sales and Bus Dev)

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.

As of November, 2010, MarkMonitor has over 509,000 domain names under its management and safeguards the brands of companies like Facebook, and Wikimedia Foundation; MarkMonitor also has strategic alliances with Microsoft, Yahoo!, America Online Inc., Kroll, The Steele Foundation, Earthlink, LexisNexis, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

History

In 1998, Faisal Shah founded MarkMonitor in San Francisco, CA . In 2000, MarkMonitor became an ICANN accredited domain registrar.

In 2001, MarkMonitor announced strategic alliance with Lexis-Nexis, a research solution provider company.

MarkMonitor also formed strategic alliance with Eversheds, an UK based law firm, in February, 2002.

In October 2003, MarkMonitor annouced its merging with Alldomains.com, a domain registration and management providing company from California.

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

In 2005, MarkMonitor signed partnership contracts with AOL to develop a new initiative to protect its users against phishing.

In November 2005, it was announced that MarkMonitor, with Cyota Inc. and Internet Identity , would regularly provide information on confirmed phishing Web sites as part of efforts to help enhance the protection offered by Microsoft.

In December, 2005, MarkMonitor annouced to work with Open Technology Solutions (OTS) to provide anti-phishing and fraud protection services

In May 2006, MarkMonitor announced the closing of $12 million in venture capital investment led by Cargill Ventures.

In 2006, MarkMonitor and Sports Marketing Surveys formed alliance to protect 2006 World Cup and Olympic Winter Games Brands online.

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

In March, 2009, MarkMonitor announced AntiFraud Solutions, a patented technology that would enable brand owners to prevent, detect and respond to phishing and malware attacks.

In October 2010, MarkMonitor acquired DtecNet Software, a global anti-piracy company for an undisclosed amount of money.

Product And Services

• Domain Management: Domain Management establishes brands online including safety and security services with domain managements services

• 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, predicts detects, blocks, monitors and shuts down phishing and malware sites etc.

External Links

• MarkMonitor Corporate Website