For licensed iGaming operators

iGaming brand protection: clones, look-alikes and impersonators, removed under statute.

Counsel-led takedowns of clone casinos, look-alike and typosquat domains, brand impersonation, affiliate misuse and fake apps — for licensed operators. Filed under named statute, on lawful grounds.

Signed by Ihor Makushinsky. NDA-first. No call required to start.

CASE FILE · iGAMING OPERATOR Counsel-led · NDA-first · confidential
  1. No. 32 · Sites & domains Clone casino site yourcasino-bonus.top
    Live Filed Removed DMCA §512 At the host
  2. No. 19 · Impersonation Fake Telegram agent @yourcasino_deposits
    Live Filed Removed Trademark Telegram
  3. No. 21 · Apps & ads Affiliate bidding on your brand Ad: “YourCasino Official Site”
    Live Filed Stopped Trademark Google Ads
  4. No. 25 · Reputation Paid hit-piece “YourCasino: who is behind the scam”
    Live Filed Delisted GDPR Art. 17 Google
Removals for one operator Six-day median per removal 5,000+

The brand-abuse surfaceFiled under named statute
Clone casino sitesYour design & logo on other domains · DMCA §512
Look-alike & typosquat domainsMisspellings, variant TLDs · trademark, registrar
Brand impersonationFake "official" sites, social, Telegram, apps
Affiliate brand-bidding & misusePPC on your brand · unauthorised offers
Trademark-infringing adsCompetitor / affiliate ads on your mark
§ 02 · By the numbers
5,000+Removals for one iGaming operator
6 daysMedian time to removal
~85%Success rate on qualified filings
Operational partner

Lawyerd is a partner in Cloudflare's Brand Protection programme with API-level access for takedown operations on Cloudflare-protected domains. This is not a public-tier integration — it is a controlled-access channel for verified enforcement practitioners.

Licence jurisdictions

30+ jurisdictions under active practice — Curaçao GCB, Malta MGA, Anjouan, the UK Gambling Commission and EU/EEA contexts. Others on request.

§ 03 · The cabinet

Watch a clone casino go from found to removed.

Every engagement runs through a client cabinet. You see each clone, mirror and fake app we find, decide what gets filed, and follow every notice to the host. A link counts as removed only once our re-check confirms it is gone.

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§ 04 · Why this matters

Why iGaming brand protection is a licence issue, not just lost traffic.

iGaming brand protection means defending the brand itself — the clone sites, look-alike domains and impersonators that wear your name to intercept deposits — not just the reputation around it. For a licensed operator the stakes run past traffic: regulators hold you responsible for how your brand and your affiliates behave, so uncontrolled brand abuse becomes a licence and AML exposure, not only a marketing problem.

Generic ORM agencies treat this as marketing — paid removal, soft requests, brand-management theatre. Big-law treats it as litigation — billed by the hour, scaled for court, not for volume. Both are wrong tools.

What works is fast, lawful, documented enforcement under named statute — DMCA §512 for copied design and assets, trademark and registrar abuse for impersonation and typosquats, Berne and EU 2019/790 where copyright travels, search deindexing where the law supports it — escalated to hosts, registrars and upstream networks. Filed by counsel. Reviewed before submission.

We act for legitimate operators whose brand is being abused, and we are explicit about the line: we do not suppress lawful regulator warnings or genuine criticism, and every matter is screened before we act.

§ 05 · Our approach

Three constraints, held together.

Speed

Six-day median to removal.

From authorised takedown notice to confirmed delisting. Active matters reviewed daily. Volume operations scale weekly.

Legality

Every removal under named statute.

Berne, EU 2019/790, DMCA Title 17 §512, GDPR Article 17. We do not pay for removal. We do not threaten. We file.

Discretion

Counsel-signed engagements.

Communications encrypted. NDA-first standard. No marketing material includes your name unless you explicitly authorise it.

§ 06 · What these matters look like Typical pattern

A clone is never just one site — it is a network.

The recurring shape: your casino design and logo reappear on a look-alike domain to intercept deposits; an affiliate runs paid ads on your brand or an unauthorised "official" page; a fake app surfaces in a store. We triage each into a named legal route — DMCA §512 for copied design and assets, trademark and registrar abuse for impersonation and typosquats, platform IP channels for fake apps and social accounts — and escalate to hosts, registrars and search where a clone regenerates. The practice's track record on qualified filings is in §02 above; we do not publish invented per-brand figures.

Method, not a guarantee · outcomes depend on facts and jurisdiction

  1. 01 Clone on a fresh domainDMCA §512 · host, registrar, search
  2. 02 Affiliate misusing your brandTrademark · ad platform, affiliate programme
  3. 03 Fake app in the storePlatform IP channel · store, social
§ 07 · Press and reviews

Content can revoke your licence long before a regulator does.

Clones are half of the exposure. The other half is reputation: a coordinated series of negative articles in your target jurisdiction creates a paper trail that your regulator will read before any inquiry begins.

We remove defamatory media, paid hit-pieces and disinformation campaigns directed at operators, and challenge fake complaints on review portals — see how we handle AskGamblers complaints and Casino Guru complaints. Same rule as everywhere else: named statute, counsel-signed, no paid removal.

§ 08 · A recent matter M / 01 · Anonymised

700 removals in 20 days for a Tier-1 CIS-region operator.

The client was facing a coordinated negative-press campaign across three jurisdictions following a competitor’s dispute. We accepted 2,600 candidate URLs at intake, qualified them down to actionable filings, and resolved 700 within the first 20 days. Approximately 85% success rate on qualified filings — in line with category-leading enforcement practice. The client retained their primary licence without regulator inquiry.

Details abstracted · Full case file under NDA

Candidate URLs at intake2,600
Removed within the first 20 days700
~85%Success on qualified filings
Primary licence retainedWithout regulator inquiry
Ihor Makushinsky, senior counsel at Lawyerd
§ 09 · Counsel of record

Every engagement reviewed and signed by counsel.

Ihor Makushinsky
Senior counsel · in IP and compliance practice since 2014

Eight years as in-house IP specialist at Plarium (the studio behind RAID: Shadow Legends), then founded Lawyerd in 2021 to scale enforcement work. Mentor at Techstars; Entrepreneur in Residence at Temple University.

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§ 10 · Engagement

Three shapes the practice takes.

Engagement scoped after audit. Pricing discussed under NDA.

Starter

Reactive standing capacity.

Routine media monitoring and reactive removal work. Monthly retainer. Suitable for operators with steady operations and occasional media exposure.

By appointment
Active

Continuous engagement.

For operators with ongoing media exposure across multiple jurisdictions. Direct counsel access. Bi-weekly reporting.

By appointment
Crisis

Surge capacity.

For an active media incident or regulator inquiry. Daily reporting. Time-bounded engagement.

By appointment
§ 11 · Begin

Request a 48-hour confidential audit.

We will surface 3–5 live attacks against your brand, signed by counsel, without obligation.

  • 01NDA-first — attach yours and we sign before we begin
  • 02No call required to start
NDA upload · optional

Reviewed personally by Ihor Makushinsky · Response within one business day