This category will monitor any SSL certificates registered with one of these authorities.

Before that, we will apply fuzzy match algorithms in order to generate permutation on the domain you saved in your Identifier. The objective is to find out whether anyone registered domains that are similar to yours, preventing typosquatting and phishing.

The default Risk score for most SSL certificates registration found is 2. However, multiple factors enter in our Risk classification algorithm, possibly pushing the Risk score either way; Factors leading to lower scores are whether Flare suspects the domain registered to belong to you, looking among other things, at the domain and TLD in the case of a subdomain registration. Various trustworthy cloud and hosting services automatically register domains that follow a specific pattern.

Factors leading to higher risk score include the registration authority, the similarity between domains and how many domains were registered at once.

Flare applies a wide range of fuzzy match algorithms and heuristics to identify possible impersonators. We look at things like homoglyphs, insertions, deletions, omissions, repetitions, transpositions, vowels swap and bitsquatting.

If your organization is the owner of example.com, Flare will spot the following look-alike domains (and many others):