Brand Monitor
Set up Brand Monitor
Create a watcher so DomainRadar alerts you when someone registers a lookalike of your brand.
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Brand Monitor watches Certificate Transparency logs and emails you when a domain matching your brand goes live. Set up a watcher in under a minute.
Create a watcher
Open Brand Monitor → Watchers
Open app.norcube.com → DomainRadar → Brand Monitor → Watchers.
New watcher
Click New watcher and fill in:
- Word – your brand keyword. Keep it short and specific (
norcubegood;cubebad – too many false positives). - Allowlist – comma-separated domains you already own and trust
(e.g.
norcube.com, app.norcube.com, status.norcube.com). Matches against these are suppressed. - Notification email – where alert emails go.
- Minimum notification score – 0–100. Lower = more emails, higher = quieter. Default 30 is reasonable to start.
- AI content check – toggle on for high-noise watchers; off for specific brand keywords with low false-positive risk.
Save
Click Create. The watcher starts catching CT log entries immediately. First matches – if any – appear within a few minutes at Brand Monitor → Detections.
Tuning the score threshold
Start at 30 and adjust based on email volume:
- Too many emails – raise the threshold (e.g. 50, 70). Lower-score hits still appear in Detections for retrospective review; they just don't email.
- Missing real alerts – lower it (e.g. 20). Combine with AI content check for quality.
For very high-traffic brand names, consider:
- Splitting into multiple watchers with narrower keywords.
- Adding more entries to the allowlist as you spot legitimate matches.
Edit or pause a watcher
In Watchers:
- Click a row to edit fields.
- Toggle Enabled off to pause. Hit history is kept; new matches stop recording.
- ⋯ → Delete removes the watcher and all its hits permanently.
What costs what
- A watcher costs per hour it's active. The free tier includes one always-active watcher.
- An AI content check is billed per check, only when triggered.
- Listing hits and reviewing them in the dashboard is free.
See pricing for current rates.
Behaviour and edge cases
- The watcher catches matches forward, not backward. Activating a new watcher doesn't scan historical CT logs.
- One alert per unique (domain, watcher) pair. Cert renewals don't re-alert.
- Disabled watchers are paused, not deleted. No hits are recorded while disabled, but watcher config stays.
- The first watcher is free; additional watchers count as billable resources.