Protect your brand online with knowem.com

Scanning through Twitter yesterday I bumped into a link to a new service called knowem.com. It allows people to protect their online brands by offering to register social networks profiles on over 380 networks.

The tool checks your brand presence on a variety of social networks. The lists are arranged by category of social networks like Photo, Video, Business, Blogging, etc. See a complete list of Social Networks. The service offers a number of plans including personal and corporate. You can register each profile yourself or you can pay and your brand profile will be registered for you.

Advantages of using the tool:

• Once you register those profiles, your brand name is preserved across major social networks.
• If the name is already taken, you can see who owns the name.
• It’s a good tool to keep track of your social network profiles.
• You can export your social networks lists to a CSV file to share with a client.

Disadvantages or things that are missing:

• Lack of proper list management interface where I can track social networks I own.
• As the product is still new, there’s a few bugs.

If you know of any other similar tools or have a comment on this one, please leave in the comments to this post.