Visit Handles Brand Trust Index for 2026

Own the handles you want.
Defend the ones you have.

handles.ai secures the exact social handles your brand needs, and takes down the impostors abusing the ones it has.

Instagram

@adidas

TikTok

Trademark filed

Filing activity

live

09:14

Trademark claim filed

Instagram

09:41

Impersonation report filed

TikTok

11:02

Inactive-handle request

X

13:20

Claim accepted

Instagram

14:55

Registrar hold released

YouTube

15:38

Transfer sanctioned

X

16:07

Handle assigned to you

Instagram

17:22

Monitoring enabled

41 platforms

09:14

Trademark claim filed

Instagram

09:41

Impersonation report filed

TikTok

11:02

Inactive-handle request

X

13:20

Claim accepted

Instagram

14:55

Registrar hold released

YouTube

15:38

Transfer sanctioned

X

16:07

Handle assigned to you

Instagram

17:22

Monitoring enabled

41 platforms

Get the handle. The right way.

We work the only routes the platforms actually allow — trademark claims, impersonation and inactive-handle processes, sanctioned transfers — to secure the handle you want, or tell you straight if it can’t move.

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Scanning 41 platforms

127 lookalike accounts found

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@adidas.official

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@adidas_hq

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@adidasshop

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@adidass

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@adidas.co

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@adidascare

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@adidashelp

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@adidas-official

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@adidas_dm

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@adidassupport

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@adidas.store

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@adidasteam

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@adidas.hq

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@adidasinc

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@adidas.us

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@adidasusa

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@adidas2026

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@adidasmedia

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@adidas_official

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@adidasgroup

adidas

@adidas

2,411 impostor accounts removed

Across 41 platforms in the last 24 hours

Shut down the fakes.

We scan every platform for impersonators and squatters, then run the takedowns — 2,411 removed in 24 hours for one brand.

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24 hrs

to recover the adidas motorsport handle ahead of a launch

2,411

impersonator accounts removed in a single 24-hour window

3M+

handles audited across major platforms in 2025

78%

of brands can’t secure handles matching their exact name

Two jobs, one brand

Whatever the handle problem,
there’s a desk for it

Acquisition is offense — securing the handles you don’t have yet, through routes the platforms recognize. Governance is defense — protecting everything already flying your name. Most brands need both.

The broking desk

You name the exact handles you want, on any platform.

We assess whether a compliant route to it actually exists.

We file trademark, impersonation and transfer cases through official channels.

You end up owning the name the platform recognizes — or a straight answer why not.

See how the broking desk works

The governance platform

A free Trust Index scan maps your live social footprint.

Radar flags impersonators, clones and squatters continuously.

IP Integrity turns detections into platform-verified takedowns.

Governance controls who can post as you, everywhere.

See how protection works

Per-platform reality

What is actually possible, platform by platform

Every line here is grounded in the platforms’ own published terms. Where a name genuinely cannot move, we say so.

Platform

Verdict

What that means

TM

Imp

Xfer

Instagram

Meta Platforms

Transfer prohibited

First-come and non-reservable. A registered trademark alone earns you nothing.

YouTube

Google

Prohibited for handles

Enforcement, a Brand Account owner transfer, or winning the race to a freed name.

Reddit

Reddit, Inc.

Prohibited & irreversible

Usernames are retired forever — never recycled, even after deletion.

TikTok

ByteDance

Prohibited for organic handles

The 180-day inactivity reclaim is TikTok’s own action, not a route you can file.

LinkedIn

Microsoft

Mixed — Pages permitted

Company Page URLs and admin roles reassign. Personal profiles never do.

Route open

Closed by policy

TM · trademark Imp · impersonation Xfer · sanctioned transfer

See the full per-platform guidance

We do not buy, sell or broker handles. Every route we run is one the platform publishes.

Why that matters

Trusted with the social identity of

adidas

3M+ handles audited, 10,000+ fakes removed across 2025, and a launch-critical handle recovered in 24 hours.

adidas

Lumen

Northwind

Vireo

Kestrel

Monarch

Atlas Bank

“The handle we want is taken.”

“Fake accounts are using our name.”

handles.ai

Own the handles you want. Defend the ones you have. The social identity perimeter, secured on both sides.

handles.ai does not buy, sell, or broker usernames or accounts, and does not solicit or exchange login credentials. Our service is expert guidance through platform-sanctioned processes only. Outcomes are determined by the platforms at their discretion; no specific handle is guaranteed.

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