What brand protection teams do
Brand protection is about finding where your name, products, and pricing are being misused across the open web, then gathering the evidence to act. Residential proxies make that monitoring accurate by letting you view listings and storefronts from the regions where the abuse actually appears.
- Detect counterfeit and knock-off listings on marketplaces and social storefronts.
- Identify unauthorized or gray-market sellers operating outside approved channels.
- Spot minimum advertised price (MAP) violations across regions and retailers.
- Flag misused logos, trademarks, and lookalike domains that impersonate the brand.
- Document how infringing listings appear, to support takedown and enforcement, within site terms and applicable law.
Why residential IPs and geo targeting help
Counterfeiters and unauthorized sellers often tailor what they show. A listing, price, or storefront can look different, or disappear entirely, depending on the visitor's country or city. Requests from a residential IP in the target region return the same view a real local shopper sees, so your findings reflect what customers actually encounter rather than what a seller shows to an office network.
Because Nefo addresses come from real consumer devices, monitoring sees the same pages ordinary visitors get rather than the view served to datacenter ranges. That matters when you need a representative, unaltered picture of how offending listings appear region by region, across 227 countries and territories.
Match sessions to the investigation
Use rotating sessions, which assign a fresh IP per request, for broad sweeps: scanning many listings, sellers, or keywords across a marketplace to surface candidates worth a closer look.
Switch to a sticky session, which holds the same IP for up to roughly 24 hours, when you need continuity: following a suspicious seller's full storefront, stepping through a listing to confirm a counterfeit, or re-checking the same page over time from one consistent location.
City and state targeting for regional MAP checks
MAP enforcement is regional by nature. The same product can be advertised at a compliant price in one metro and below the floor in another, so a single vantage point misses violations. Country-level targeting is available everywhere via a country token, and for finer detail you can target individual cities and states in most countries, more than 22,000 cities in all.
That lets you confirm whether a violation is localized to one city or widespread, and compare how an unauthorized seller prices the same item across regions before you escalate.
Getting started from 5 GB
Bandwidth is pay-as-you-go from 5 GB ($4.50, or $0.90/GB) and does not expire, so you can scope a project, such as a single marketplace, a set of SKUs, or one region, before scaling to ongoing coverage. Every plan includes both HTTPS and SOCKS5, works with rotating and sticky sessions, and comes with a dashboard for usage analytics plus API access to automate recurring scans.
Keep collection lawful and ethical: respect each site's terms and robots directives, gather only publicly available listing data, avoid personal data you are not permitted to process, and keep request rates reasonable. You can pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Alipay, Binance Pay or crypto.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Country targeting works everywhere, and you can target cities and states in most countries, across 22,417 cities, to see how a product is advertised in a given metro. See US city-targeted proxies.
Rotating sessions suit broad sweeps across many listings and sellers. Sticky sessions hold one IP for up to 24 hours, which suits following a single seller or confirming a listing step by step.
Collecting publicly available listing data to protect your brand is a common, legitimate practice if you follow each site's terms and applicable law. Abusive activity is not allowed; review the acceptable use policy.
Both are included. HTTPS suits browser checks and most scrapers, while SOCKS5 suits tools that need lower-level socket support. You can switch without changing plans.
Plans start at 5 GB for $4.50 ($0.90/GB) and never expire, so you can begin with one marketplace or region and buy more as the program grows. Larger plans cost less per GB, down to $0.53/GB at 10 TB.