Straight answers, including the uncomfortable ones

No — and be careful with anyone who says they can. A public website has to send its code to every visitor’s browser, so the code can always be saved. What we do is what actually settles disputes: detect the copy when it goes live on another domain, and prove — with a blockchain timestamp — that your version existed first.

Two layers. Your site carries a unique tracking ID registered to your domain, embedded in more than one place. Separately, your content — every page, photo, and file our scanner finds — is hashed with SHA-256, and the combined fingerprint is timestamped.

Any time your site’s fingerprint loads from a domain that is not one of your registered domains. You are emailed the domain, the page, the date and time, and visitor details. Staging or test domains of your own can be added to your registered list so they never alert.

Any website where one small snippet can be added — including WordPress and the sites we build at Pearce Studios. If your web person can add a line of code before the closing body tag, your site can be protected.

Yes. One account can protect many websites, and one website can be registered to several domains. That is exactly what the Business and Agency Partner plans are for.

Your monitoring log showing when and where your fingerprint appeared on the copying domain, your blockchain timestamp certificate and proof file, and a comparison summary between your stamped original and the copy — the material hosts, registrars, and platforms typically request for takedown actions.

No. It is independent, tamper-proof evidence that specific content existed at a specific time — very useful in disputes and takedowns. It does not replace U.S. Copyright Office registration, and we are not lawyers. For a serious dispute, your evidence pack is what you hand to one.

Copiers rarely find every layer — the fingerprint is embedded in multiple places, including ones that are easy to miss. And your content stamps stand on their own: even a perfectly cleaned copy still has to explain why its content matches a fingerprint that was timestamped before their site existed.

Tell us, or let us know on your regular cycle, and we re-scan and re-stamp the new version. Each version gets its own timestamp, building a dated history of your site’s evolution.

Our Resources page covers it in plain English: copyright basics, exactly what a DMCA takedown notice must include and where to send it, a step-by-step guide for when your site is copied, and answers to the questions owners ask most.

It is a month-to-month service — contact us and cancellation takes effect at the end of your paid period. Monitoring stops then; the certificates and timestamp proofs already issued for your content remain yours.

The easy way: install the Footprint OnChain WordPress plugin, paste in the tracking ID and canary phrase from your setup details, and save. The plugin adds your full fingerprint to every page automatically — no code editing. If we manage your site, we can install and configure it for you. Download it from the WordPress Plugin page.

Yes. The whole-website scan hashes your pages’ HTML, your CSS stylesheets, and your JavaScript files, alongside your words and photos. A copied build matches your stamps file for file, even if the copier rewrites the visible text.

The domain your fingerprint was found loading on, the exact page, the date and time, and visitor details such as the IP address — plus your site’s name and tracking ID, so you know which property it concerns. If it is a genuine copy, we follow up with the full evidence pack.

Yes. Footprint OnChain works on any website where a small snippet can be added — WordPress, hand-built sites, and most builders that allow custom code. We will guide your web person through it; it takes minutes.

No meaningful impact. The fingerprint is a tiny snippet: a meta tag, a hidden marker, one small script that loads last, and a 1-pixel stylesheet beacon. Your visitors see no difference.