Avast lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 111 domains that resemble Avast since February 2026, 20 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (68%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 86% of them, out of 13 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 10 in the last 30 days against 3 in the 30 before. 1 certificate for unregistered .ph names (registry wildcard) is excluded: the registry answers for any name under that ending, 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: service (4).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 13 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 96 | 86.5% |
| .net | 3 | 2.7% |
| .help | 2 | 1.8% |
| .be | 1 | 0.9% |
| .co.uk | 1 | 0.9% |
| .de | 1 | 0.9% |
| .info | 1 | 0.9% |
| .online | 1 | 0.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 90 with a registrar in WHOIS (81% 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 | 20 | 22.2% | Retail |
| NameBright | 10 | 11.1% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 9 | 10.0% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 5 | 5.6% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 4 | 4.4% | Retail |
| Unstoppable Domains | 4 | 4.4% | Retail |
| Gname | 3 | 3.3% | Retail |
| Name.com | 3 | 3.3% | Retail |
What the live ones do
11 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 7 (64%) served a website and 5 (45%) 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 4 live ones checked against it.
4 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 Avast; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
avfast[.]comTypo, Oct 14Not checkedavastappc[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteavastlogins[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteavayt[.]comTypo, Oct 4Not checkedservice-avast[.]shopCombo, Oct 4MX recordsavastsecureloops[.]comCombo, Oct 3No site or mail when checkedservice-avast[.]orgCombo, Oct 3Not checkedavact[.]comTypo, Oct 1Not checkedavust[.]comTypo, Sep 30Not checkedafast[.]comTypo, Sep 17Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Avast. Domains listed resemble Avast 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.