Case Study: Funda protects market-data authority and prevents lead scraping with Distil Networks

Funda - Customer Case Study

Funda, the Netherlands’ largest property portal with about 200,000 listings and over 30 million monthly visitors, faced persistent web scraping, lead theft and misuse of its market data that threatened its brand and broker relationships. Its homegrown IP-blocking approach and legal actions weren’t sufficient against increasingly sophisticated automated scrapers and competitors mining listings and leads.

Funda deployed Distil Networks appliances integrated with its F5 load balancers and AWS/CloudFront stack to move from monitoring to proactive mitigation. Distil accurately distinguishes bots from humans, enables organization-level blocking, and filters bot noise from analytics—allowing Funda to stop abusive scrapers, protect its data and leads, produce cleaner user metrics for site redesign decisions, and gather evidence if legal action is needed.

Funda

Koen Peeperkorn

Direct Product Development