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What is Have I Been Squatted?

Have I Been Squatted is a domain-risk and adversary-infrastructure platform. It watches for lookalike and abusive domains that target your brand, enriches them with technical context, and helps you take them down — all in one workflow rather than across a dozen disconnected tools. It is built for security teams: the site says it is trusted by 700+ organizations, and its own framing is "the intelligence and response layer for adversary infrastructure."

What it actually does

The workflow follows three stages:

• Detect. Continuous monitoring surfaces domains registered or configured against your brand, drawing on signals such as domain registrations, certificate transparency logs, DNS and nameservers, mail infrastructure, and hosting/IP data. Alerts are scored and prioritized rather than dumped as a raw feed.
• Investigate. Related domains are clustered into campaigns and attributed, with screenshots and an isolated live browser session so analysts can inspect a suspicious site without exposing their own machine.
• Disrupt. Takedowns are handled on your behalf and tracked through to resolution.

Where it fits in a stack

Beyond the console, the platform offers REST APIs, streaming lookups, and alert webhooks, so enrichment can land in a SIEM, SOAR, or case-management tool your team already uses. Custom rules and queries let you define what counts as a critical event — for example, flagging high-confidence phishing classification combined with a very recent registration date.

Who gets the most from it

The clearest fit is a brand-protection, threat-intelligence, or SOC team that currently stitches together certificate-transparency searches, WHOIS lookups, and manual takedown emails. A smaller organization with occasional concerns may find a free lookup sufficient; the value here compounds with always-on monitoring and casework volume.

A practical next step

Start with a single high-value domain — your primary brand — and define two or three rules that reflect real abuse patterns you have seen, such as newly registered lookalikes hosting mail records. Run it for a few weeks before expanding coverage, so you can judge alert quality against your own triage capacity. If you want to compare approaches, official sources include Have I Been Squatted for this platform and ICANN for registration and takedown context.

How does Have I Been Squatted detect typosquatting and attack infrastructure?

Have I Been Squatted works as a monitoring-and-response layer: it continuously watches public registration and internet infrastructure signals, matches them against your brand or domains, and converts the matches into scored alerts you can investigate and act on.

H3 What it watches

According to the site, its signal sources include:

• Domain registrations
• Certificate transparency logs
• DNS and nameserver records
• Mail infrastructure
• Hosting and IP data

These feeds converge into the platform, which produces prioritized outputs. Rather than a single one-off lookup, the model is continuous monitoring, so newly staged domains surface "the moment it appears" rather than only when someone runs a manual search.

H3 From signal to action

The workflow has three stages the site describes:

For investigation, the platform offers automatic screenshots as visual evidence and an isolated live browser session, so an analyst can inspect a suspicious site without exposing their own machine. Custom rules and alerts let you define what counts as critical and get notified on those events.

H3 Where it fits in a stack

The site positions the product as intelligence embedded in existing tooling: REST APIs, streaming lookups, and alert webhooks push enrichment into SIEM, SOAR, and case-management systems. That matters if your analysts already live in one console and don't want a second one. The site also states it is trusted by 700+ organizations, which suggests the intended audience is security teams rather than individual domain owners.

H3 Practical takeaway

If you are evaluating it, start with a concrete test: pick a handful of domains close to your real brand (common misspellings, hyphenated variants, alternative TLDs) and check whether the platform surfaces them, how it scores them, and how quickly alerts arrive. Then confirm the API and webhook path actually feeds your existing SIEM or case tool, since the value depends on fitting your workflow rather than replacing it. You can see the current feature set and plans at Have I Been Squatted.

Can Have I Been Squatted handle domain takedowns for me?

Yes. Have I Been Squatted presents takedowns as one of its three core stages — Detect, Investigate, Disrupt — and describes the Disrupt step as "Infrastructure taken down on your behalf, tracked through resolution." So it is positioned as a managed response service, not just a detection dashboard.

What that means in practice for a typical user — say a brand protection or security analyst who receives a scored alert about a lookalike domain:

• The platform clusters related domains into campaigns and attributes them, so a takedown request can target a group of linked domains rather than one at a time.
• Screenshots and an isolated browser session produce visual evidence you can attach to a complaint.
• Casework progresses through to resolution with status tracking, so you can see which requests are still open.

The trade-off to weigh: outsourcing takedowns saves the legal and registrar-chasing legwork, but you give up direct control over wording and timing of complaints. If your organization has in-house counsel who prefers to send its own cease-and-desist letters, you may want the platform for detection and evidence only.

Next step: before committing, ask the vendor two questions — which registrars and hosting providers they file with regularly, and whether they hand back the evidence package if you choose to pursue a case yourself. Those answers determine whether the response layer complements or replaces your existing process.

How much does Have I Been Squatted cost?

Have I Been Squatted does not publish a price list on the page supplied here; the only pricing signal is a link to its pricing page, Have I Been Squatted. That usually means the cost is quoted per organisation — based on how many brands or domains you monitor, how many users need access, and whether you want managed takedowns rather than self-service alerts.

What drives the cost

• Scale of monitoring — the number of domains, brands and lookalike variations watched continuously.
• Response scope — whether the vendor handles takedowns and casework on your behalf, which is labour-intensive.
• Integration depth — REST APIs, streaming lookups and alert webhooks into your SIEM, SOAR or case tools.
• Seat count and workflow features — custom rules, scored alerts, screenshots and live isolated browser sessions.

How to judge a quote

Compare it against the cost of the alternative: an analyst manually checking certificate transparency, DNS, mail records and hosting data across dozens of lookalike domains. If the platform replaces even a fraction of that manual triage, the subscription is often justified — but only if your team actually acts on the alerts.

Next step: open the pricing page and request a quote, then ask explicitly what is included (monitoring volume, takedown handling, API limits) versus billed separately. If you are a small team wanting only occasional checks, a free manual check may be enough; if you run brand protection or a security operations centre, ask for a trial with your own domain list so you can measure false-positive rates before committing.

Does Have I Been Squatted integrate with SIEM, SOAR, or other security tools?

Yes. The platform is built to push domain-risk findings into the security stack you already run rather than keeping them in a separate console. Its integration layer is described as REST APIs, streaming lookups, and alert webhooks, with the stated goal of delivering enrichment where SIEM, SOAR, and case-management tools operate.

That matters because typosquatting and lookalike-domain alerts are only useful if they reach the people and queues already handling incidents. A typical setup: a webhook fires when a newly registered lookalike domain appears, your SOAR playbook opens a case, and the enrichment — risk score, hosting and IP data, DNS and nameserver records, certificate transparency hits, mail infrastructure — is pulled into the case via the REST API so an analyst can triage without switching tabs.

Practical fit by team

One trade-off to weigh: API and webhook integrations assume some engineering capacity to build and maintain the pipeline. If your team lacks that, the value shifts to the platform's own alerting and reporting rather than deep automation. Also confirm how alerts are prioritised before routing them into a SOAR playbook — noisy webhooks create more work than they save.

A reasonable next step is to check the official documentation for the API and webhook specifications, then decide whether to start with a single high-value trigger (for example, new registrations matching your brand) before expanding coverage.

Is Have I Been Squatted suitable for small businesses or only large enterprises?

Have I Been Squatted is designed to be usable by small businesses, but its strongest fit is teams that already have some security workflow — whether that is a solo IT lead or a full SOC. The page positions it as an "intelligence and response layer" with a single workflow spanning detection, investigation and takedown, and states it is trusted by 700+ organizations. That breadth suggests it is not gated to large enterprises, but it also does not read as a set-and-forget tool for a business with no one to act on alerts.

What a small business actually gets

• Continuous domain monitoring with prioritised alerts when risky or abusive domains appear, so you do not need to run manual typosquatting checks repeatedly.
• Investigation context from domain registrations, certificate transparency, DNS and nameservers, mail infrastructure, and hosting/IP data — useful when a small team lacks a dedicated threat-intel analyst.
• Evidence capture: automatic screenshots and an isolated live browser session for inspecting malicious sites without exposing your own machine.
• Takedown handling, tracked through resolution, which matters most for organisations without in-house legal or brand-protection staff.

Where it may exceed a small business's needs

The platform's stated strengths — campaign clustering and attribution, custom rules and alerts, and REST APIs, streaming lookups and webhooks for SIEM, SOAR and case tools — point to buyers who run a security stack and have someone to triage scored alerts. A very small business with no security owner may find the volume of signal and the response obligations heavier than it can absorb.

A practical decision criterion

Ask one question: if a convincing lookalike domain appeared tomorrow, who would investigate and pursue the takedown? If the answer is "nobody, or me, occasionally," start with the monitoring and alerting side and treat takedowns as a later step. If the answer is a named person or team, the end-to-end detect-investigate-disrupt workflow is the reason to choose it over piecing together separate tools.

For a concrete first step, check the Have I Been Squatted pricing page and run a sample domain through the free lookup on the homepage to see how noisy the alerts would be for your brand before committing.