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Ways to use passive DNS intelligence: Brand Protection Specialist

Posted on
July 01, 2026
Author
Spamhaus Technology Team
Read time
1 mins

Introduction

Introduction

For brand protection specialists, passive DNS exposes the infrastructure behind typosquatting domains and lookalike sites before they're used in an attack. Use it to find out who is masquerading as your company, brand or trademark, before it hurts your customers or your brand.

Content

  • Search: Query Detective passive DNS intelligence for domain names containing your company's name or a specific keyword.
  • Pinpoint: Identify malicious domains and easily view their IP addresses.
  • Pivot: Search that IP address to uncover any further domains it's historically been connected to.
  • Go further: Subscribe to our real-time Zero Reputation Domain (ZRD) feed to see domains registered in the past 24 hours (which have a higher likelihood of being used for fraud).

Do this faster with Deteqtive

This entire workflow - search, pinpoint, pivot - is what Deteqtive was built to accelerate. Fuzzy and exact matching surface lookalike domains in one query instead of several, and pivoting between a domain and every IP it's touched happens in a single click.

Deteqtive is currently in early access, you can learn more here or get in touch if you have any questions.