Terms
What we promise.
Plain English, because terms nobody reads help nobody. These apply when you use this site or buy anything from us. Last updated 13 October 2026: prices for law firms, and notices we file for you, with the Watch or the Fix. On 12 October: the Watch's morning email about mail sent in your name. On 11 October: prices for title, escrow and settlement companies, the record of work, the morning email about a new look-alike, and when the second half of a Fix is due if the work runs long.
Who you're dealing with
CopycatCheck is a product of ATXworks.dev, operated by C. Achberger, Austin, Texas, reachable at hello@copycatcheck.com and at 13341 W. US Hwy 290, Building 2, Austin, TX 78737.
The free things are free
The check, the written plan and the tools cost nothing, need no account, and stay free. Use what they tell you however you like, including having somebody else do the work, or doing nothing at all. We ask one thing back: only run checks and claim plans for domains you own or are authorized to act for. The plan says where a business is weak, which is why we make you prove the domain is yours before we hand it over.
The free check has a rate limit so one person can't take the whole thing. If you need to check many domains, ask us rather than working around it.
Notices we file for you
A dashboard for a domain you've proved is yours writes a notice for each look-alike of your name that's worth one: what the public records show about it, and a request to its registrar, or its host, to review it. Send it yourself, or, with the Watch or the Fix, press File It for Me. Pressing it asks us to send the notices shown, in your business's name, from our own address, and to follow them up. It comes with both, at no extra cost. You confirm you act for the business it names. We send only what you saw, and we record the sentence you agreed to, word for word. We may decline to file one, and if we do, your dashboard says why; the same name can be asked about again after 30 days, as it can 30 days after the company answers. What we send is signed by our desk, not by a person. If others hold the dashboard for your domain too, we tell them when you ask, and wait a day before sending so they can object. The decision belongs to the company that receives the notice, not to you or us, and we can't promise any name comes down.
What we sell
- Fix, $1,500. We make the change for you: find everything sending mail in your name, set your own tools up properly, tighten enforcement in stages over 60 to 90 days, report anyone sending as you, file the notices about look-alike addresses, and read your reports daily for 90 days. Covers one domain and up to five sending services. Extra domains are $500 each. Half may be paid at the start and half when your domain is refusing forged mail. If that takes longer than 120 days for reasons that aren't ours, the second half is due then.
- Watch, $2,000 a year or $597 a quarter. Your reports come to us, we read them daily, and you get a short note each week and a fuller account each month. The morning the reports show mail sent in your name that failed the check (forwarded copies of your own mail aside), we email you how many, what each mail provider did with them, and where they came from. We keep checking the look-alike names, and email you the morning after our nightly check finds a new one that could pass for you, or finds one newly set up for mail. One that looks like a real business, or was registered long ago, goes in the weekly note instead. When one's worth a notice, we file it with its registrar or host in your name and follow it up.
- Fix plus the first year of watching, $3,000. After a Fix, later years of watching are $2,000, and your first year is $1,500 because Fix already covered three months.
- For title, escrow and settlement companies: Fix, $3,500. The same work as the Fix, across up to three domains and up to ten services that send as them, with a note for your clients about how you send wire instructions. More than that, and we quote it before we start. Half may be paid at the start and half when your domains are refusing forged mail. If that takes longer than 120 days for reasons that aren't ours, the second half is due then.
- For title, escrow and settlement companies: Watch, $4,800 a year or $1,350 a quarter. The Watch for those domains, with an email the morning after our nightly check finds a new look-alike that could pass for you or finds one newly set up for mail, the notice to its registrar drafted, filed and followed up when one needs it, and a dated record of the work whenever you ask.
- For law firms: Fix, $3,500. The same work as the Fix, across up to three domains and up to ten services that send as them, with a note for your clients about how your firm sends payment instructions. More than that, and we quote it before we start. Half may be paid at the start and half when your domains are refusing forged mail. If that takes longer than 120 days for reasons that aren't ours, the second half is due then.
- For law firms: Watch, $4,800 a year or $1,350 a quarter. The Watch for those domains, with an email the morning after our nightly check finds a new look-alike that could pass for you or finds one newly set up for mail, the notice to its registrar drafted, filed and followed up when one needs it, and a dated record of the work whenever you ask.
Prices are in US dollars and don't include any tax that may apply where you are. We tell you before we charge you anything.
What we don't promise
- We can't promise nobody will ever impersonate you. Enforcement turns away forged mail using your exact address at the providers that honor it, which is most of the large ones. It doesn't stop look-alike addresses, a real mailbox somebody has broken into, or your name typed into a "from" line.
- We can't promise a look-alike site or address will come down. We write the notice for you to send, and with the Watch or the Fix, we file it and follow it up. The decision belongs to the registrar or the hosting company, not to us.
- We report what public records say. Registration records, certificate logs and DNS can be incomplete, out of date or deliberately hidden. We won't guess who is behind a name, and neither should you.
- We watch the look-alikes our check makes, not every one there could be. Our nightly check looks at the common misspellings and swaps of your name. A name it finds for the first time may have been registered long before, and we say so when public records give a date.
- The record of work is a record, not a certification. It reports what our checks and the providers' reports showed, and when. It doesn't say that a business meets ALTA Best Practices, an ethics opinion, a bar rule or any insurer's requirements, and it isn't an audit, an attestation or advice. Its dates are the day one of our checks saw a change, which may be after the day it was made. It's prepared for you: show it to anyone you like, such as an insurer or an auditor, but nobody else may rely on it as advice from us.
- This isn't legal advice. If somebody is defrauding your customers, talk to a lawyer and to law enforcement. We'll hand over everything we found to help.
- We don't touch your systems without a written agreement. The check and the plan never touch anything of yours. For the managed work you give us access to your DNS settings, we change only what the agreement names, and we tell you before each step.
- Everything here is provided as it is. We don’t warrant that a check is complete, that a result is accurate, or that it fits any particular purpose, because it is built on public records we don’t own and can’t verify. We do the work carefully, and if we got something wrong we’ll correct it. Beyond that there is no warranty, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
- We can’t promise the watching never stops. We run it every day, and we watch the server that runs it. Hosting still fails, providers stop sending reports, and networks break. If we miss a day we’ll tell you. If we miss enough that you didn’t get what you paid for, we’ll refund it. What we won’t do is promise an uptime number that isn’t ours to control.
Your side of it
You confirm you're authorized to act for the domains you check and for the changes you ask us to make. DNS changes affect real mail, which is why we stage them and say what each step touches. If you make the changes yourself, from the free plan, they're yours to make and to reverse.
Don't use anything here to attack, harass or impersonate somebody else. That's the thing we're against.
If you point us at a domain you weren’t authorized to act for and somebody brings a claim against us because of it, that one is yours. You’ll cover the claim and what it costs us to deal with it. This isn’t aimed at an honest mistake, so tell us and we’ll sort it out. It is aimed at anyone who tries to use us as a weapon against somebody else.
Paying and refunds
- Payments are handled by Stripe. Card details go to them and never reach us.
- Fix: if you change your mind before we make the first change to your DNS, we refund it in full, no questions. After that we refund the part we haven't done yet.
- Watch, quarterly: cancel any time and you aren't charged again. We don't bill part of a quarter you didn't use.
- Watch, yearly: cancel any time and we refund the months we haven't watched yet.
- If something we did wasn't what we said it would be, tell us and we'll put it right or refund it. We would rather do that than argue.
If something goes wrong
We'll fix what we broke. Beyond that, what we owe you is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the problem, and we aren't liable for indirect losses such as lost profit or lost business. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for anything that can't be limited by law.
Ending it
You can stop using any of this whenever you like. We can decline or stop work if somebody is using the service to impersonate or attack another business, and we refund anything unused if we do.
When you stop, we stop. The reports stop reaching us the moment you change the record back, which is yours to do and not ours. Whatever we already hold we keep to the schedule on the privacy page, and if you’d rather it was gone sooner, ask and we’ll delete it and tell you when it is done.
Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, and any dispute belongs to the courts of Travis County, Texas.
Changes
If we change these terms we'll change the date at the top. A change never applies backwards to work already paid for.