Make your store harder to clone: what works
Search for how to stop people copying your store and most of what you find protects nobody. Here is an honest split.
Right click blocking and copy protection scripts do nothing, because the page has already been delivered to the browser. Watermarks help only when the mark sits on the product. What works is registering the few look-alike domains that matter, keeping your authorised list current, and watching new domain registrations rather than waiting for complaints.
Theater
Disabling right click
By the time a page has rendered, every image is already on the visitor's machine, and the page source lists every path in plain text. A context menu block stops a customer saving a product photo. It does not inconvenience anyone copying your store for a living by even one minute.
Copy protection scripts
Same reasoning. Anything delivered to a browser has been delivered. Text selection blockers mostly harm accessibility and your own customers.
Copyright notices in the footer
Worth having for other reasons, but nobody building a copy reads your footer and stops.
"Do not copy" warnings
An operation running dozens of stores is not deterred by a message. It is deterred by cost.
Helps a little
Watermarks, if they are on the product
A logo in the corner is cropped in seconds. A mark integrated across the product, or a consistent set styling that reads as yours, is expensive to remove at scale. The measure that matters is whether removing it costs the copier real work.
Distinctive photography
The more your images look like a stock catalogue, the more interchangeable they are. Photography with a recognisable setting, model or styling makes a copy visibly yours when it appears elsewhere, which also makes it much easier to evidence later.
Registering your trademark
It does not prevent anything. It changes what you can do afterwards: several platform routes ask for a registration number, and a trademark claim without one is a weaker instrument than a copyright claim with evidence.
Works
Register the handful of look-alike domains that matter
Your brand on the common alternative endings is cheap and it takes the most obvious names out of circulation. Copies gravitate to endings that are inexpensive and quick to register, so buying yours removes the easiest options.
Do not try to register every variation. The permutation space is effectively infinite and that is a subscription to a problem you cannot outspend. A small, deliberate list is insurance. A large one is a budget line with no end.
Keep your own authorised list current
This one sounds administrative and is the most valuable thing on the page. When a look-alike store appears, the question that decides everything is whether it is one of yours. A current list of your own regional stores, distributors and resellers turns a week of internal emails into a two minute check, and it is the thing that stops you filing a notice against your own partner.
Watch for new names, not just for problems
Any site that serves HTTPS announces its name in a public certificate log before it goes live. That means a copy of your store can be seen at registration time rather than when a customer complains. The method is public and free, and it is covered in the guide on certificate transparency.
The uncomfortable conclusion
You cannot prevent this. Copying a store is cheap, the supply of domains is endless, and every measure above raises the cost a little without changing the economics.
What you can change is the interval between a copy going live and you knowing about it. That interval is where the damage happens: the orders taken, the chargebacks, the one-star reviews on your listing from people who never bought from you. Shortening it from months to days is a monitoring problem, and it is the only lever in this article that moves the number that matters.
Questions
Does disabling right click protect my images?
No. The images are already on the visitor's machine by the time the page has rendered, and the page source lists every path. Blocking a context menu stops a customer saving a photo and stops nobody else.
Do watermarks help?
A little, and only if they are on the product itself rather than in a corner. A corner mark is cropped in seconds. A mark across the product costs the copier real work, which is the only thing that ever deters them.
Should I register lookalike domains myself?
The small number that matter, yes. Your brand on the common alternative endings is cheap insurance and it removes the most obvious names from the pool. Registering hundreds of variations is a subscription to a problem you cannot outspend.
What actually stops it?
Nothing stops it. Copying a store is cheap and the supply of domains is endless. What you can change is how long a copy runs before you know about it, which is a monitoring problem rather than a prevention one.