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As of November, 2010, MarkMonitor has over 509,000 domain names under its management and safeguards the brands of companies like Facebook<ref> [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Facebook-Targeted-in-Spam-Scam-603252/ E Week]</ref>, and [[Wikimedia Foundation]];<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:MarkMonitor Wikimedia Foundation] </ref>

MarkMonitor also has strategic alliances with [[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo|Yahoo!]], [[AOL|America Online Inc.]], [[Kroll]], [[The Steele Foundation]], [[Earthlink]], [[LexisNexis]], and the [[Anti-Phishing Working Group]].<ref> [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=3786391 Bloomsberg Business Week]</ref>

Mark Monitor employs robots operating from a wide range of servers hosted by major providers including Google.

While MarkMonitor's business purpose is protection against unauthorized use of intellectual property or web resources, the company employs techniques to avoid routine digital protection measures such as [http://www.robotstxt.org/robots.txt robots.txt] files. MarkMonitor robots also routinely scrape web sites without issuing [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html referer fields] which is considered a security risk as blank referer fields are generally associated with malicious attacks.

==History==

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 As of November, 2010, MarkMonitor has  over 509,000 domain names under its management and safeguards the brands of companies like Facebook<ref> [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Facebook-Targeted-in-Spam-Scam-603252/ E Week]</ref>,  and [[Wikimedia Foundation]];<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:MarkMonitor Wikimedia Foundation] </ref>
 MarkMonitor also has strategic alliances with [[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo|Yahoo!]], [[AOL|America Online Inc.]], [[Kroll]], [[The Steele Foundation]], [[Earthlink]], [[LexisNexis]], and the [[Anti-Phishing Working Group]].<ref> [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=3786391 Bloomsberg Business Week]</ref>
+Mark Monitor employs robots operating from a wide range of servers hosted by major providers including Google.
+While MarkMonitor's business purpose is protection against unauthorized use of intellectual property or web resources, the company employs techniques to avoid routine digital protection measures such as [http://www.robotstxt.org/robots.txt robots.txt] files. MarkMonitor robots also routinely scrape web sites without issuing [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html referer fields] which is considered a security risk as blank referer fields are generally associated with malicious attacks.
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