Airbnb lookalike domains

What kind of lookalikes

Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: support (3).

Lookalikes per week

Endings

The 8 most used of the 26 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.

Where they are registered

For the 116 with a registrar in WHOIS (71% of all). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by brands themselves, so a domain there is more likely the brand's own than an imitation.

What the live ones do

18 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 10 (56%) served a website and 10 (56%) publish MX records, so they can receive email. Checks run on the higher-severity matches that resolve, not on every lookalike.

Google Web Risk lists none of the 7 live ones checked against it.

7 were tracked while live and 0 have since gone down. See what to do about a lookalike.

Recent examples

The 10 most recent, written with [.] so they cannot be clicked. The brand's own domains and registrations held by brand-protection registrars are left out. A lookalike resembles Airbnb; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.

• airbbnb[.]co[.]uk
  Typo, Oct 13Not checked
• airdmb[.]co[.]uk
  Homoglyph, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX records
• serviceairbnb[.]com[.]br
  Combo, Oct 12Serves a website
• officialairbnb[.]com
  Combo, Oct 10No site or mail when checked
• airbnbsupportapp[.]com
  Combo, Oct 9MX records
• airbnbr[.]com
  Typo, Oct 8Not checked
• airbnbco[.]uk
  Typo, Oct 7Not checked
• airbnbservices24[.]com
  Combo, Oct 6Serves a websiteMX records
• airdnd[.]co[.]uk
  Homoglyph, Oct 5Serves a website
• airbnc[.]co[.]uk
  Typo, Oct 4Not checked

Further reading

• What combosquatting is, with examples
• Homoglyph and punycode domains, explained
• How to find lookalike domains of your own company
• What to do about a lookalike domain
• The weekly lookalike domain report, across all monitored brands