American Express lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 120 domains that resemble American Express since February 2026, 11 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (75%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 97% of them, out of 5 endings in all. The pace has slowed, with 2 in the last 30 days against 7 in the 30 before. 111 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.ph, .net.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
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-04 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 5 most used of the 5 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 116 | 96.7% |
| .co | 1 | 0.8% |
| .info | 1 | 0.8% |
| .jp | 1 | 0.8% |
| .us | 1 | 0.8% |
Where they are registered
For the 109 with a registrar in WHOIS (91% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above.com | 28 | 25.7% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 13 | 11.9% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 11 | 10.1% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 6 | 5.5% | Retail |
| Internet Domain Service BS | 6 | 5.5% | Retail |
| Unstoppable Domains | 5 | 4.6% | Retail |
| Gname | 4 | 3.7% | Retail |
| Name.com | 4 | 3.7% | Retail |
What the live ones do
Google Web Risk lists none of the 2 live ones checked against it.
2 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 American Express; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
americanexpressconfirmcard[.]usCombo, Oct 4Serves a websiteMX recordsservice-americanexpress[.]comCombo, Oct 4Serves a websiteMX recordsamericanexpresssupport[.]comCombo, Sep 12Not checked2americanexpress[.]comTypo, Sep 12Not checkedamericanexprsess[.]comTypo, Sep 5Not checkedamercanexpress[.]comTypo, Sep 2Not checkedamericanexpress-official[.]comCombo, Sep 1Not checkedxn--americanexprss-c4b[.]comShown in a browser as americanexprėss[.]comHomoglyph, Aug 28Not checkedamericanexpress-jp-official[.]comCombo, Aug 25Not checkedamericanexpress-alert[.]comCombo, Aug 9Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with American Express. Domains listed resemble American Express 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.