Brand Protection proxies

How to approach brand protection

A reliable process matters more than any single setting. The steps below are a good starting point, and you can adapt them to your own tools.

1. List the brand names, product names and typical misspellings to search for.
2. Search public marketplaces and search engines through a proxy in each target country.
3. Record suspicious listings with a screenshot, the seller, the price and the address of the page.
4. Send the evidence to your legal team or use the platform's reporting tools.
5. Re-check reported listings to confirm that they were removed.

Choosing the country

Search from the countries where counterfeits are sold or where you have rights. Marketplaces localise results and sellers.

ProxyOnly stocks proxies in 63 countries, and you choose the country with -country-xx in the username or when you order. The locations directory shows live stock and prices for each one.

• Proxy locations by country63 countries in stock

What to measure

Without measurement you cannot tell whether a change helped. Track at least these figures for brand protection.

• Suspicious listings found
• Reports filed
• Listings removed

Doing it responsibly

Read public pages only. Take advice from a lawyer before acting on what you find.

Which proxy type fits any country

Pick the proxy type from the job rather than the price. Here is how the types we sell compare, so you can match one to your work in any country:

Datacenter IPv4. The default choice for most jobs. These are dedicated IPv4 addresses hosted in a datacenter, fast and inexpensive, and the best fit for high-volume reading of public pages, monitoring and automation. Some websites treat datacenter ranges more cautiously than consumer connections, so test your target before you commit to a long rental.

ISP proxies. Static addresses that are registered to an internet service provider rather than a hosting company. They keep the speed of datacenter hardware and look more like an ordinary home or office connection, which helps with destinations that are strict about hosting ranges.

Shared IPv4. A shared address is used by more than one customer and costs less. It suits light tasks, quick checks and testing where a clean, exclusive address is not essential.

IPv6. IPv6 addresses are very cheap and plentiful, and they work well with destinations that serve IPv6 traffic, such as many large search, video and social platforms. Many smaller sites are still IPv4 only, so check that your target supports IPv6 before you buy.

Mobile proxies. Addresses from mobile carrier networks. Many phones share the same carrier address, so websites tend to be tolerant of this traffic, which makes mobile proxies the right choice for testing mobile ads, apps and landing pages. They cost more than datacenter addresses.

Residential proxies. Addresses from home internet connections, billed by the amount of traffic you use and not by the IP. They suit light, bursty jobs on sites that block datacenter and ISP ranges. Heavy traffic gets expensive quickly, so estimate your monthly volume first.

If you are unsure, rent one address of the type you think you need, run your real task against it for a day, and look at the success rate. Because rental periods start at a few days, trying a type costs very little.