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Proxies for Brand Protection

Counterfeit listings and impersonation do not always show themselves to a datacentre address. Finding them means looking the way the customers being deceived actually look.

§ 01The problem

What breaks without the right network

Sellers and bad actors can serve different listings by geography, and a sweep that is easy to fingerprint gets filtered or blocked before it finds anything worth escalating.

  • Storefronts and listings that vary by geography, hiding infringing content from the wrong origin
  • Rate limits that stop a broad marketplace sweep partway through
  • Blocks on origins a platform has already flagged as automated
  • Investigations that need one address held stable across many pages or an authenticated session
§ 02How the network helps

What actually changes the outcome

See listings the way a local buyer does

Residential addresses across 190+ countries let a sweep check marketplaces and storefronts from the same vantage point the customers being deceived actually shop from.

A stable identity for an ongoing investigation

ISP addresses are static and dedicated to one customer, so an investigation that needs the same origin across many pages, or an allowlisted portal, keeps one identity throughout rather than rotating mid-case.

Fast replacement when an address gets flagged

Flagged ISP addresses are replaced within 4 hours under the SLA, so a long-running investigation is not stalled waiting on infrastructure.

Broad rotation for the initial sweep

Rotating residential addresses spread a first-pass sweep of many storefronts across the pool, so no single listing sees repeated checks from the same origin.

§ 03Recommended line

Which network to put this on

Primary

Residential

An initial sweep across many marketplaces and storefronts needs the geographic and rotational diversity residential addresses provide, to see listings the way affected customers do.

from $1.75 / GB

Alternative

ISP

Once a specific case needs a stable, allowlistable identity across an extended investigation — repeat visits, an authenticated portal — a static ISP address holds that identity where residential rotation would not.

from $1.50 / IP / month

§ 04How teams run it

A workflow this fits into

  1. 01Enumerate the marketplaces, platforms, and search terms the programme monitors
  2. 02Run a broad rotating sweep for first-pass discovery, and hold a static address for any case that needs continuity
  3. 03Log evidence — screenshot, timestamp, and listing identifier — for anything flagged
  4. 04Route confirmed matches to legal or enforcement for takedown action
§ 05Compliance

Publicly available data, used lawfully

Every recommendation above assumes lawful collection of publicly available data. Our acceptable use policy governs what is and is not permitted on this network, and sourcing and compliance explains where the addresses themselves come from.

§ 06FAQ

Questions we get about this

Can I hold the same address for an entire investigation?
Yes. ISP addresses are static and dedicated to one customer for as long as you hold them, which is what a case needing a consistent identity across many visits requires.
How fast is a flagged address replaced?
Within 4 hours on ISP, under the published SLA, so an ongoing investigation is not left without infrastructure.
Can I target listings in a specific country?
ISP and datacenter support country-level targeting. Residential and mobile give broad international coverage without a per-request country selector at checkout.
Is monitoring marketplaces for counterfeit listings lawful?
Collecting publicly available listing data for enforcement purposes is generally lawful, subject to the platform's own terms and applicable law, and it has to be a use our acceptable use policy permits.
Do you support allowlisting for authenticated enforcement portals?
Gateway allowlisting restricts credential use to your own egress ranges, which combines with a static ISP address to give an authenticated portal a single, predictable origin to trust.

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