List of New Top-Level Domain Extensions (check for availability):

NET.BZ
NET.BR
COM.MX
ORG.AG
COM.BZ

COM.ES
NOM.ES
ORG.ES

FIRM.IN
IND.IN
ORG.IN
NET.NZ
ORG.TW
CO.IN
GEN.IN
NET.IN
CO.NZ
ORG.NZ
COM.TW
IDV.TW

Of course, we also still search over 400 social media networks to find the availability (or usage) of your trademark, brand, or personal username. And we still offer our unique Automated Username Signup packages, with which our local staff can secure your brand on up to 300 social networks.  (Every member of KnowEm’s signup staff is under strict NDA and has had criminal background checks to ensure your sensitive information is always protected).

KnowEm, the company working to help brands manage their identity across the social web, announced the public launch of a new Enterprise Dashboard designed to help brands protect their trademarks and intellectual property in the ever-changing social media landscape.

The dashboard gives social media and IP legal teams a centralized location to monitor and manage their social media identities. With just a few clicks a marketing manager or lawyer can see exactly where a certain trademark or name is secured, and where it’s still unclaimed and vulnerable. KnowEm takes the process a step farther by automatically securing names, even creating profiles, wherever needed.

KnowEm’s database contains over 5,000 social networks around the world  — from Mexico Diario to the Netherlands’ Hyves — and is growing on a daily basis as new social sites emerge. As a result, businesses can be sure their trademarked terms are reserved and protected in global sites today and tomorrow.

The enterprise dashboard was previously available in a limited invitation-only beta, during which time KnowEm collaborated with key clients, including Continental Airlines, Yahoo, and Flickr. For example, Continental has been using the dashboard to protect their brand trademarks and reserve their profiles on emerging social networks.

“While Twitter and Facebook are obvious places to check your brand identity, globally much of the social web is unchartered territory. It’s critical that we control our trademarked terms and brand identities throughout each network,” said Lora O’Riordan, Social Media Manager at Continental Airlines. “KnowEm’s service has become an important part of our social media strategy, ensuring we protect our property and opening our eyes to new opportunities for consumer engagement.”

In addition, the new dashboard enables brands to stay on top of the buzz surrounding their brand and industry on the social web. KnowEm’s brand alert monitoring system tracks each mention of a brand name, username, or keyword across 5,000+ social networks. The service breaks down the data into meaningful charts, such as social mentions by network, author, or geographic location, and reports can be emailed on a weekly, daily, or almost hourly basis. As a result, businesses can better understand who’s talking about their brand, where, and when.

To date the KnowEm team has helped to reserve over 500,000 profiles and reported back to clients on over 60,000 issues of squatting and misrepresentation of a brand, username or trademarked term.

We also made a little interface change to our initial search page.  Rather then search our entire database of almost 500 social networks right from the start, we have limited the initial search to the top 20 social networks as well as the top 8 domain extensions. You will notice the tabs at the top which will take you into deeper searches of both, over 400 social media sites and over 40 different domain types.

Things have been very busy with everyone at team KnowEm.  So far our second year in business has been a very interesting one – from sending out a cease and desist to a company that copied our site right down the meta tags to hiring our 30th employee. We continue to grow and build the best set of tools for companies, individuals and brands to make sure they are secure on the social web.

We have another big announcement coming soon, so be sure to check back, become a fan on Facebook, or follow us on twitter so you will know when our next big announcement hits!

To your success,

Michael Streko & Barry Wise

Founders,
KnowEm LLC

Yiid has long been recognized as a leader in the social media space, especially in Germany, where its parent company Ekaabo GmbH is headquartered.  Yiid’s service provides a central location for users to discover new social networks, connect with friends and manage their online identity.

Since both KnowEm and Yiid are highly recognizable brands in social media, a cooperative partnership just seemed natural.

The tweetup is an informal get-together where we can talk about IP issues, cybersquatting, trademark misrepresentation, social media identity theft, and just about anything else you feel like discussing.  We’re very happy to be in Boston for the INTA Annual Meeting this year, and we’d like to thank the organizers Rob and Nils for inviting us to sponsor the tweetup.  If you’re at the INTA Meeting, or are simply interested in trademark and intellectual property issues in social media, let us know if you’re around.  We’d love to see you there!

How It Started

KnowEm started as a service that would claim your username, trademark, brand or identity on 120 social media sites.  Almost instantly we were contacted by companies who were looking for a more robust service that would also fill out all complete profile information and continue doing so on an ongoing basis as new social media sites were released.

As an answer to this business need, on May 15th 2009 we launched our beta Enterprise Dashboard.  As of today, we’ve been able to use this dashboard to help our clients (ranging from local businesses to the Fortune 500) secure over 500,000 profiles as well as detect over 30,000 cases of brand squatting or trademark infringement. We’re extremely proud to report that all this work  has been completed by our local in-house staff.  Since security and privacy are our biggest concerns at KnowEm, we will never trust your sensitive data to any 3rd party, and none of our work is outsourced to offshore labor.

Last May we also met our primary Business Advisor, Paige Craig, who seemed like a perfect match to join our board.  Paige is an Angel investor out of the Los Angeles area who truly knows his way around a startup. Brian Solis also joined around the same time as a business advisor and PR advisor.

In October we decided to take the business a step further, so we relaunched KnowEm offering some of the services that our dashboard clients had been using all year.  We were also happy when Matt Inman decided to work with us and come on board as our creative director and give our site an excellent new interface.

It was around this time we were introduced to Robert Siciliano, and invited him to join us as a board member.  Robert is nationally recognized as an expert in identity theft, so he seemed to be a perfect fit to make sure that our order processing was as secure as possible and that our users were not at risk for identity theft.

Since the new year began, the last 3 months have been very hectic; we acquired another site, we were selected out of 200+ finalists for the SXSW Business Accelerator, and we have formed some new amazing and unique partnerships (you’ll hear more about those in the next few weeks).

We just want to say thanks to everyone who made this first year a great one!

We’re excited to welcome all the users from FriendsCall.Me into the KnowEm community, and hope everyone can benefit from the improved service and massive number of Social Networks which KnowEm currently tracks.  We’re up to just about 400 popular Social Networks in our system now, and of course we still offer our famous free profile system which allows you to list all the social networks with which you have registered an account.

Now for the boasting: we have to pat ourselves on the back just a little for the incredible honor of being nominated by SXSW as one of the best Social Media Business Startups of the Year!  If you’re coming to SXSW Interactive this year (March 12 to 16, 2010), be sure to stop by the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator Event as we present the cool new features KnowEm has to offer for the Enterprise.  We’ve been busy working on them for almost a year now and have rolled them out to a limited number of our corporate partners, but we plan to fully unveil these amazing new Social Media tools for the Enterprise to the public at SXSW.  We think you’re really gonna like what you see

As always, if you have any questions about KnowEm, our service or our partner offerings, please feel free to contact us – we look forward to hearing from you!

From TechCrunch: KnowEm Helps Businesses Stake Their Claim To Brands On Social Media Platforms

“There are increasing number of platforms in the social media landscape where businesses need to “stake their claim,” and engage with consumers. But it can be tough for brands to keep track of their Facebook pages, mentions on Digg, photos on Flickr, Tweets on Twitter and so on. Startup Knowem is launching a family of services that are designed to help both large companies and small businesses stake their brand claim in social media landscape and manage their presence on these sites.”…

From Mashable: KnowEm: Claim Your Identity Across Hundreds of Social Media Sites

“Having a consistent social identity is becoming increasingly important for users and businesses that engage in online communication. After all, people can associate you or your personal brand with your username.”…

Now about those new features …

One thing you’ll notice is a much more detailed user profile page.  Check out the pages for KnowEm co-founders Barry Wise and Michael Streko to see how you can use a personal profile to identify your presence on the social web.  You can use your personal profile to not only identify which social media profiles you control, but which ones you don’t (more about that in a later post).

For businesses, we offer another kind of profile – check out the profile page for KnowEm to see what it can offer.  Not only does it list Social Media profiles, it also catalogs all mentions of your brand on several social media mashups, as well as Google trending terms and Compete Statistics.

There are plenty more features we’d like to show you, so look forward to our next blog post when we discuss our new tracking and analysis system for social networks …

The popularity of social media networks, like Facebook and Twitter, are starting to get the attention of businesses – particularly small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). They’re attracted to it, because social media is proving to be an effective channel for creating new leads and also supporting existing customers.

With all of the promise that social media offers to businesses, there’s one downside, identity theft. Many businesses are often in shock when they find out their brand is already registered on popular social networks.

Raven Internet Marketing Tools recently tackled this issue by integrating an identity theft prevention tool called KnowEm. KnowEm was created by Barry Wise and Michael Streko to help businesses take control of their brand on social networks. It’s been featured in newspapers and on television, including the Washington Post, CNET and Fox News.

KnowEm does a real-time check for branded usernames and keywords on over one hundred popular social networks. It then returns a list of social networks where the brand is and isn’t registered.

In most cases, businesses will find that their brand is still available for registration on most social networks. While it’s good news that their brand is available, the bad news is that they still have to register it on over one hundred social media Web sites. Fortunately, Raven reduces the time and effort involved in registering their brand. For a nominal fee, Raven will register the brand on all available social networks, securing their brand identity for future use.

As social media identity theft increases, it’s important for businesses to protect their brand now. The integration of KnowEm into Raven will ensure that they can do that.

About Raven Internet Marketing Tools: Raven is used by marketers around the world to manage their search engine optimization (SEO) and social media campaigns. Raven provides a robust agency-ready suite of tools that enable Internet marketing departments to conduct research and analysis, manage link building, monitor their brand, track search engine performance, and analyze their Web site’s traffic and conversions. Learn more at http://raventools.com.

So what kind of deal can I get?

Well, it really depends on what kind of online reputation management campaign you are planning. Obviously, when it comes to bulk orders the greater the number of orders, the lower the pricing. Since we just launched the service this week we are open to discussing any suggestions on pricing from you, our valued customers.

So can I submit 100 orders for “BuyViagra” misspellings?

No, of course not. We still reserve the right to reject any orders which we consider spam or objectionable. Remember, we are not trying to violate any of the terms of service for these great sites, and we don’t want to devalue their community. We simply want to take some of the workload off of you for creating accounts. We will also not participate in any cyber-squatting or social media identity theft, that is exactly why we launched this service, to protect brand names.

If you’ve got any questions at all about bulk orders, please don’t hesitate to contact us.