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Use Case

Residential Proxies for Brand Protection

Detect counterfeits, impersonators, unauthorized resellers, and trademark violations across global marketplaces. The infrastructure behind brand-protection platforms scanning marketplaces and the open web.

205M+Residential IPs
195+Countries
99.9%Uptime SLA
<500msAvg Response

Trusted by 73,393+ clients worldwide

The Challenge

Why Brand Protection needs residential proxies

Marketplaces Block Aggressive Scraping

Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, and regional marketplaces detect datacenter traffic and serve degraded data to bots. Brand-protection workflows that detect counterfeit listings need fresh, accurate listing data from residential IPs.

Counterfeits Hide by Geography

Counterfeit sellers often only display infringing listings to buyers in specific markets. Catching the full picture requires geo-distributed residential IPs in every region the brand sells.

Constant Listing Churn

Counterfeit listings appear, sell, and vanish within hours. Effective enforcement requires continuous, high-frequency scanning across millions of marketplace pages — datacenter pools can't sustain that load.

Multi-Channel Visibility

Brand abuse spans marketplaces, social platforms, ads, lookalike domains, and resale forums. Comprehensive coverage requires uniform infrastructure that handles every channel reliably.

Solutions

How Shifter powers Brand Protection

Real-world applications of residential proxies in Brand Protection.

Marketplace Counterfeit Detection

Scan thousands of marketplaces daily for counterfeit listings, hijacked listings, and trademark violations. Surface infringements to enforcement teams for takedown across Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, regional marketplaces.

Lookalike & Impersonator Domains

Detect typosquats, lookalike domains, and brand-impersonator sites using DNS, certificate transparency, and content fingerprinting. Critical for catching phishing infrastructure and brand-abuse campaigns early.

Social & Ad Impersonation

Track unauthorized brand use, impersonator accounts, and fraudulent ads across social platforms and ad networks. Catch brand-abuse campaigns before they erode customer trust.

Copyright & IP Enforcement

Detect unauthorized use of copyrighted images, video, music, and content across the open web. IP-enforcement workflows aggregate residential-grade signals to power copyright and trademark programs.

MAP Violation & Reseller Audit

Identify minimum-advertised-price violations and unauthorized resellers across marketplaces and DTC sites. Geo-distributed coverage catches regional violations that single-region scrapers miss.

Takedown Evidence Package

Capture HTML, screenshots, DOM signals, and seller metadata as part of takedown evidence. Audit-grade traffic logs support legal enforcement and platform takedown workflows.

Workflow

A brand protection workflow

Monitor marketplaces, search results, and websites from the markets where your brand sells.

  1. Discover

    List the marketplaces, websites, social channels, and search terms where your brand appears.

  2. Monitor

    Scan those sources on a schedule through residential IPs in each target country or city.

  3. Detect

    Flag counterfeits, unauthorized sellers, lookalike domains, and MAP violations in the collected data.

  4. Evidence

    Capture HTML, screenshots, seller details, and timestamps for every flagged listing.

  5. Action

    Send the evidence to platform takedown forms, your legal team, or your enforcement tool.

Proxy types

Residential vs ISP proxies for brand protection

Shifter offers two proxy products that fit brand-protection work.

  • Shifter Residential Proxies

    205M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries for large-scale marketplace, search, and website monitoring.

  • Full Geo targeting

    On the Full Geo pool, target by country, state, city, or ASN to see listings as local buyers see them.

  • Shifter ISP Proxies

    ISP proxies stay in the city and on the ISP (ASN) you choose for the whole billing period.

Pools

One product, three pools

Same rotation, sessions, protocols and dashboard on every pool. Choose how much targeting you need and pay only for that.

Buy one, get one free.

Second month is free, with full traffic included.

Full Geo

Recommended

Our largest pool, with city and ASN targeting.

from$0.75/GB
IP pool
205M+ IPs
Targeting
Country, state, city & ASN
Countries
195+
Best for
Localized data, ad verification, anything city-level
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Country Geo

Pick a country, the network handles the rest.

from$0.48/GB
IP pool
31M+ IPs
Targeting
Country only
Countries
195+
Best for
Country-specific scraping and monitoring at scale
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Non-Geo

Worldwide IPs at the lowest price per GB.

from$0.10/GB
IP pool
31M+ IPs
Targeting
None (worldwide mix)
Countries
Worldwide, not selectable
Best for
High-volume scraping where location does not matter
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  • Per-request rotation
  • Sticky sessions (sid) and timed rotation (ttl)
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • Unlimited concurrent connections
  • Same dashboard and API
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Fixed monthly plans with included bandwidth. No hidden fees. Scale as your usage grows.

Buy one, get one free.

Second month is free, with full traffic included.

Starter71% OFF
$3.50/GB
$1.00/GB
$175$50/month·50 GB

What's included

  • 50 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

Basic67% OFF
$3.00/GB
$1.00/GB
$300$100/month·100 GB

What's included

  • 100 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

BusinessPopular70% OFF
$2.50/GB
$0.75/GB
$500$149/month·200 GB

What's included

  • 200 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

Growth63% OFF
$2.00/GB
$0.75/GB
$800$299/month·400 GB

What's included

  • 400 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about proxies for Brand Protection.

Counterfeit and impersonation infrastructure is often geo-segmented: sellers show infringing listings only to buyers in specific markets, and impersonator domains serve different content to corporate IPs vs. real consumers. Residential IPs reveal what actual customers see, which is essential for enforcement.

Yes. Brand-protection platforms commonly run hundreds of thousands of requests per day across major marketplaces. Residential IPs handle the sustained access these workflows need without triggering bot detection that would degrade or block the data.

Yes. Your scraper running on Shifter residential proxies can capture HTML, screenshots, and DOM data per page, which is useful for compiling takedown evidence packages. Audit-grade traffic logs support compliance and downstream legal workflows.

Combine certificate transparency feeds, DNS scans, and content fingerprinting. Visit candidate lookalike domains via residential IPs to capture the actual content served (often differs vs. corporate IPs) and surface phishing/impersonation campaigns.

Brand-protection scraping is widely accepted and often actively enabled by platforms (e.g., Amazon's Project Zero APIs). Always check each platform's specific terms and prefer official APIs where they exist. Public listing data is generally fair game for IP enforcement.

Brand protection is the work of finding and stopping online activity that harms your brand. That includes counterfeit products, unauthorized sellers, trademark misuse, impersonator accounts, fake websites, and pricing violations. Teams monitor marketplaces, search results, social platforms, and websites, then act on what they find.

Yes. Scheduled scrapers routed through residential proxies can check marketplaces, search results, and websites on a regular cadence. They capture listings, prices, and screenshots from the markets you choose. Your team then reviews flagged items and files takedowns.

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