Have I Been Squatted vs Recorded Future

• Choose Recorded Future for brand monitoring across domains, social impersonation, code leaks, the dark web and credential exposure, with threat intelligence and managed escalations behind it. ^1–6
• Choose Have I Been Squatted to detect malicious domains and their infrastructure with rules your team writes, inspect suspect pages in a live, isolated browser session, and hand Takedowns to its own analysts. ^7–16
• Use both when Recorded Future runs your wider digital-risk program and your security team also wants domain rules and response in its own stack, with one team owning domain triage and takedown requests. ^{3,8–12,14,17–22}

At a glance#

Have I Been Squatted and Recorded Future on the decisions a buyer weighs first.

	Have I Been Squatted	Recorded Future
What you get
What you get	Detection and response for malicious domains7	Digital Risk Protection on a threat intelligence platform1–3
Lookalike discovery
Lookalike discovery	Permutations, certificate transparency, newly registered domains, business context23–24	Malicious Site Monitoring for newly registered lookalikes3,25–26
Website analysis
Website analysis	Redirects, HAR, DOM, crawl and page semantics9–10,13	Logo matching, screenshot OCR and login-form checks26
Phishing classification
Phishing classification	Legitimate, parked or phishing, with confidence8–10,23,27	Risk scores and AI Triage Agent verdicts3,26,28
Response in your tools
Response in your tools	Rules alert, block, annotate and request Takedowns8,11,29–31	Integrations across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, IAM and ticketing1,5,32
Managed takedowns
Managed takedowns	Analyst reviews each request; rules can open one15–16	Requested from alerts; PhishFort runs the service3,5,33–34
Beyond domains
Beyond domains	Not covered: social, apps, dark web35–36	Social, code repos, dark web, credentials, apps3,25
How you buy
How you buy	Self-serve monitoring subscription12,23	Quote-based contract5,37

Coverage beyond lookalike domains#

Recorded Future brings malicious sites, impersonation, code leaks, dark-web brand mentions and exposed identities into one Digital Risk Protection workspace on its Intelligence Platform. Brand Intelligence sits within this product. A team responsible for these channels can investigate alerts and request takedowns from the same workspace. ^{1–3,25,32,38}

Recorded Future states that its brand monitoring draws on DNS records, social media, messaging platforms, paste sites and mobile app stores, and that Digital Risk Protection adds full Telegram coverage and active infostealer logs. For credential exposure, Recorded Future states that it finds stolen credentials, often within hours of exfiltration. A team can then respond through Okta, Azure AD or a SOAR tool. ^1,3,25,39

Have I Been Squatted concentrates on domains and the threats built on them. Domain Monitoring generates lookalikes and watches certificate transparency and newly registered domains. Email Intelligence adds mail telemetry from Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and Site Canaries flag copies of your own pages. Have I Been Squatted does not monitor social media, app stores, the dark web, ads or leaked credentials. ^{12,23–24,35–36,40–42}

How each product investigates a lookalike domain#

Recorded Future builds Malicious Site Monitoring around newly registered lookalikes and phishing infrastructure. It matches attacker domains to the customer's Domain Watch List and Brand Names Watch List, and Recorded Future states that it flags them within hours of registration. Alerts carry DNS and WHOIS panels, screenshots, logo image-hash matching, screenshot OCR, login-form assessment and phishing verdicts. An AI Triage Agent can return an explicit verdict with reasoning for Malicious Site Monitoring and Dark Web Brand Monitoring. ^{3,5,25–26,28,43–44}

Have I Been Squatted gives analysts the evidence behind a lookalike and a model's assessment of its page. Discovery combines generated lookalikes, with named kinds such as homoglyphs, bitsquats and TLD swaps, with certificate transparency and newly registered domains. Results carry the RDAP registration data, hosting, DNS records, mail, port and website evidence that the scan observes. A first-party model classifies each result as legitimate, parked or phishing, with a confidence score, and an analyst can open the lookalike in an isolated browser. ^{8–10,12–14,23–24,27,45–49}

Recorded Future suits analysts who want logo and login-form assessments with an AI verdict in the alert. Have I Been Squatted suits analysts who want to check registration, DNS records, mail readiness and open ports, then investigate the site in an isolated browser. Both handle lookalike-domain investigations, so compare the evidence and next actions your team needs. ^{3,9–10,12–14,23–24,26,28,45–49}

Past a single alert, Recorded Future's Intelligence Graph links threat actors, infrastructure and targets, and Recorded Future states that it holds 200 billion nodes. Its Domain Search API filters Intelligence Cloud domain entities by risk score, risk rules and first and last seen dates. ^{4–5,34,50–51}

Have I Been Squatted offers Atlas investigations, in early access, for the infrastructure behind a lookalike. An investigation starts from a hunt you describe, optionally with the suspect domains you already have, pivots across shared infrastructure in Atlas, its store of domain observations, and keeps watching after the first pass. Results appear in views such as Tree, Table, Clusters and Flows, and an investigation exports to STIX 2.1, CSV or JSON. ^{16,48–49,52–55}

Acting on a finding in your own tools#

Recorded Future acts through integrations and exported lists in the tools you run. It lists integrations across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, IAM and ticketing platforms, and Digital Risk Protection names Palo Alto, Google Security Operations, Splunk, Okta and Microsoft among its examples. Recorded Future states that its integrations can block malicious IPs and domains automatically, and Domain Risk Lists export bulk domains with risk scores and rule evidence as CSV or STIX. It also ships an MCP server that exposes platform intelligence to agents, and a Playbook Alert API for Malicious Sites work. ^{1,3,5,32,34,44,56–60}

Have I Been Squatted puts response in rules that run over domain signals. A maintained rules library covers common detections, and your team can add its own rules. A rule can raise an alert, deliver the finding to a SIEM, push the domain to a block list, annotate the result with a status such as Malicious, or request a Takedown. Network Enforcement sends flagged domains to gateways, endpoints and mail filters. It also publishes a hosted domain feed that your tools poll in seven formats, including STIX 2.1 and CSV, with documented MISP setup. ^{8–12,19–22,29–31}

For your own automation, the Public API streams lookup, analyze and certificate transparency search results as NDJSON, with scoped keys and a Python SDK. The Have I Been Squatted MCP server covers lookups, monitoring queries, rules, alerts, Takedowns, response dispatch, result annotation and documentation search, and every write needs an organization admin. ^{10,17–18,54,61–64}

Recorded Future tunes detection with watch lists and per-use-case risk thresholds, and analysts can create a Malicious Sites alert for a domain they supply. No public documentation of a rule language for Digital Risk Protection was found. If your team wants to write its own detection logic, confirm that requirement with Recorded Future. ^3,26,65

Takedowns

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Managed takedowns and their targets#

Both products start a takedown from the monitoring workflow, and a managed team does the work. Recorded Future lets analysts request a takedown from an alert or through a Takedown API, and states one-click takedown coordination across its five Digital Risk Protection use cases. PhishFort operates that service, not Recorded Future directly. No public documentation of the PhishFort incident types available through Recorded Future was found, so confirm support for your intended targets before you buy. ^{3,5,15–16,33–34,66–68}

Have I Been Squatted runs managed Takedowns for domains. An analyst reviews every request, and a rule can open a request automatically. The team reports the domain to its host and registrar, then escalates to ICANN and regional CSIRTs where necessary. The service stops short of legal action and can introduce legal partners. ^{12,15–16,69}

Choose Recorded Future when takedown work sits beside social, dark-web or credential cases in the same Digital Risk Protection queue. Choose Have I Been Squatted when the case is a malicious domain and you want the Takedown tied to the monitoring and rules that found it. ^{3,8–12,15–16,33,69}

Where Recorded Future is the better choice#

Recorded Future fits when brand risk reaches past domains and you want every channel's alerts in one workspace with threat intelligence behind them. Intelligence Graph context and Recorded Future research inform those alerts. Managed Digital Risk Protection provides 24x7 escalations across the use cases. Recorded Future reports Leader placements in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cyber threat intelligence technologies and in Forrester's External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Wave. ^3–6,50,70

It also suits buyers who already standardize on Recorded Future for threat intelligence and want brand monitoring on the same platform, including Risk Lists for security tools and public API documentation with an MCP server. Recorded Future lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and ISO 9001 certifications. Digital Risk Protection is bought through a quote-based contract priced by organization size or named users. ^{5,34,37,56–58,60,71}

Where Have I Been Squatted is the better choice#

Choose Have I Been Squatted when your team detects and responds to malicious domains and the attacker infrastructure behind them. Domain Monitoring watches your own domains continuously for lookalikes, Analyze checks any other domain on demand, and Atlas investigations, in early access, start from a hunt you describe and any domains you already suspect. Rules written in the Upsilon query language, or taken from a maintained library, decide which findings raise an alert, reach your SIEM, get blocked or go to a Takedown. ^{7–12,14,17–18,24,29,48–49,52–53,62,72}

Analysts can follow a redirect chain, read the HAR and DOM, and open the page in a live, isolated browser session. Email Intelligence correlates Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace mail telemetry, including sender and URL domains, with the domains you monitor. Network Intelligence reads Microsoft Defender every 15 seconds and Cloudflare Gateway every minute, showing which domains devices on your network reached. When a domain has to come down, Have I Been Squatted's own team reports it to the host and registrar, and an analyst reviews every request. ^{9–16,40–41,69,73}

Monitoring, hunting tools, rules and alerts start self-serve with public per-domain pricing and a free trial. Takedowns and the email, network and SIEM products are added through sales. For security review, Have I Been Squatted has a SOC 2 Type II report, available through its Trust Center. Single sign-on works with Google, Microsoft 365 and SAML, and audit logging records activity in the organization. ^{12,14,17–18,23,73–75}

Have I Been Squatted does not suit a buyer who wants domain, social impersonation, code-leak, dark-web and credential monitoring from one vendor. Recorded Future brings those five use cases into Digital Risk Protection. ^3,35–36

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