"MarkAlert" for Domain Monitoring

Domaintools, a website providing registry and whois services, launched an interesting service called MarkAlert. MarkAlert is a free service and can be used for domain monitoring. In the context of Phishing, domain monitoring involves tracking domain registrations to identify any suspicious domains which is similar sounding or using the same name or trademark as the oraganization which is being targetted.

Here is how the service works. When you register for this service you can select the keywords that want to be monitored. Once that is done any domain registration which contains that keyword will generate an alert and an email will be sent to the user who registered for this service for further action. Currently DomainTools can monitor domain registration in the following top level domains or TLDs -.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us.

A sample email from MarkAlert, monitoring the keyword "Kotak" is shown in the figure below,