DOMAIN TAKEDOWN SERVICE
Leave domain takedowns to expert analysts who investigate malicious sites, gather provider-ready evidence, and coordinate remediation on your behalf.
Streamlined Takedown Operations
Malicious sites used to enable fraud, credential theft, and operational disruption can remain online for hours or days while security teams gather evidence and navigate complex takedown processes. A domain takedown service accelerates remediation by validating malicious activity, preparing provider-ready takedown requests, and coordinating with registrars and other operators.
Get provider ready takedown requests backed by expert investigations and evidence tailored to provider requirements.
Let your team focus on higher-priority work while our analysts validate threats, gather evidence, and coordinate with providers.
Reduce the time malicious domains stay active with Trusted Reporter relationships, coordinated abuse reporting, and blocklist protection.
The Threat of Malicious Domains
Attackers use malicious sites to steal credentials, distribute malware, and impersonate trusted brands. But to take these domains offline, security teams face a time-consuming process of validation, evidence gathering, and coordination with multiple parties. Effective domain takedown services help shorten that process, reduce the burden on security teams, and get malicious sites offline faster.
Service Capabilities
Proofpoint Takedown helps your organization investigate and remove malicious domains, phishing websites, and other online threats targeting your brand. Our expert analysts review every submission and manage the entire process, from validation and evidence collection through coordination with various providers to resolution. The result is faster remediation with less work for your team.
Features
Build stronger evidence using proprietary threat intelligence, live site analysis, and one of the industry's largest email threat intelligence datasets.
Share validated threats across Proofpoint products and trusted blocklists within minutes, reducing exposure while remediation is underway.
Prepare takedown requests tailored to provider requirements, improving remediation success while reducing manual effort.
Coordinate with registrars, hosting providers, registries, and other DNS service operators, leveraging Trusted Reporter relationships to streamline review and speed remediation.
Submit suspected threats through native Proofpoint integrations or an automation-ready API for SIEM, SOAR, and AI-driven workflows.
THREAT COVERAGE
Takedown supports remediation for a wide range of malicious infrastructure used in phishing, fraud, malware distribution, and brand impersonation attacks.
Sites used in phishing, fraud, malware distribution, and other attacks.
Domains used to impersonate or target your organization, whether or not they resemble your legitimate domains.
Fraudulent websites and fake login pages built to steal credentials and sensitive information.
Domains used in phishing campaigns delivered through email and SMS.
Sites used to host or distribute malware.
Why Proofpoint
| Capability | Self-Managed Domain Takedowns | Proofpoint Takedown |
|---|---|---|
| Threat Validation | Internal teams must investigate and validate every reported threat, often with limited access to necessary evidence | Expert analysts investigate every submission using proprietary threat intelligence and live site analysis |
| Provider-Ready Evidence | Teams must gather evidence and determine provider requirements themselves | Evidence is tailored to specific provider requirements before every takedown request |
| Provider Coordination | Teams must identify, contact, and follow up with each provider themselves | Our experts coordinate with the appropriate registrars, hosting providers, registries and other DNS service operators on your behalf |
| Blocklist Protection | Teams must manually share threats with blocklists, security tools, and their customers, suppliers, and vendors | Validated threats are instantly blocked in Proofpoint platforms, covering a massive portion of global online infrastructure |
| Time to Remediation | Remediation timelines depend on high-traffic public reporting methods, internal resources, and provider response times | Trusted Reporter relationships help speed review and remediation of threats |
| Operational Effort | Manual workflows consume valuable time and resources | Investigation, evidence collection, and provider coordination are handled for your team |
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Proofpoint Takedown focuses on malicious online activity such as phishing attacks, fraud, and malware distribution. Trademark and copyright disputes that do not involve malicious activity generally require legal processes such as Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) or Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims and are not part of the service.
Proofpoint Takedown integrates with Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense and Threat Protection Workbench. In addition, the service provides an automation-ready API for SIEM, SOAR, and AI-driven security workflows. These integrations make it easier to submit suspected threats and incorporate takedown workflows into existing security operations.