Alibaba lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 204 domains that resemble Alibaba since February 2026, 51 of them in the last 90 days. They split between typosquats (56%) and combosquats (36%). .com carries 83% of them, out of 21 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 23 in the last 30 days against 11 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 6 July 2026, with 15 new ones. 134 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.ph names (registry wildcard) are excluded: the registry answers for any name under those endings, so nobody had to register one to get a certificate for it.
Data as of . Public sources only.
What kind of lookalikes
One or two keystrokes away from the real name: a letter dropped, doubled, swapped or mistyped. More
A letter swapped for one that looks the same, in ASCII or in Unicode written as punycode. More
Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: login (9), app (4), online (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-06-01 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| 2026-07-06 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| 2026-07-13 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-08-31 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 21 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 169 | 82.8% |
| .net | 7 | 3.4% |
| .shop | 6 | 2.9% |
| .ir | 2 | 1.0% |
| .me | 2 | 1.0% |
| .org | 2 | 1.0% |
| .ru | 2 | 1.0% |
| .cc | 1 | 0.5% |
Where they are registered
For the 139 with a registrar in WHOIS (68% 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.
| Registrar | Lookalikes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 33 | 23.7% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 22 | 15.8% | Retail |
| Alibaba Cloud | 6 | 4.3% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 6 | 4.3% | Retail |
| Above.com | 5 | 3.6% | Retail |
| Gname | 4 | 2.9% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 4 | 2.9% | Retail |
| PDR | 4 | 2.9% | Retail |
What the live ones do
26 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 20 (77%) served a website and 6 (23%) 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 14 live ones checked against it (0%).
16 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 Alibaba; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
alibaba168login[.]comCombo, Oct 14Serves a websitealibaba123login[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitealibaba66online[.]netCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitealikbaba[.]comTypo, Oct 13Not checkedalibabaapp[.]topCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteservicealibaba[.]comCombo, Oct 10Not checkedalibaba66app[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websitealibabadeliveryservices[.]comCombo, Oct 9No site or mail when checkedalibaba66loginapp[.]netCombo, Oct 8Serves a websitealibaba66app[.]netCombo, Oct 8Serves a website
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Alibaba. Domains listed resemble Alibaba by spelling; registration alone says nothing about intent. Counts cover domains first seen in public Certificate Transparency logs and ICANN zone files; domains that Greyphish customers watch are excluded.