Barclays lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 99 domains that resemble Barclays since February 2026, 24 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (60%) and typosquats (35%). .com carries 68% of them, out of 20 endings in all. The pace has slowed, with 6 in the last 30 days against 10 in the 30 before. 126 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
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: center (3), help (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 20 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 67 | 67.7% |
| .org | 5 | 5.1% |
| .co.uk | 4 | 4.0% |
| .online | 4 | 4.0% |
| .help | 2 | 2.0% |
| .info | 2 | 2.0% |
| .net | 2 | 2.0% |
| .care | 1 | 1.0% |
Where they are registered
For the 59 with a registrar in WHOIS (60% 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 | 16 | 27.1% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 5 | 8.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 4 | 6.8% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 4 | 6.8% | Retail |
| Alibaba Cloud | 2 | 3.4% | Retail |
| CSC | 2 | 3.4% | Brand protection |
| Cloudflare | 2 | 3.4% | Retail |
| PDR | 2 | 3.4% | 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 2 of the 6 live ones checked against it.
6 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 Barclays; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
barclays-support[.]comCombo, Oct 12Listed by Google Web RiskNo site or mail when checkedbarclayscenterbrooklyn[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordsbarclayscenterpremium[.]comCombo, Oct 11Listed by Google Web RiskServes a websitebarclayscentersuites[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteMX recordsbarclaysappl[.]com[.]auCombo, Oct 8Serves a websiteMX recordsbarclays-online[.]co[.]ukCombo, Sep 11Not checkedofficialbarclays[.]comCombo, Sep 11Not checkedbarclayshelp[.]netCombo, Sep 9Not checkedbarclays-login[.]co[.]ukCombo, Sep 8Not checkedbarclays-verify[.]co[.]ukCombo, Sep 8Not checked
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Barclays. Domains listed resemble Barclays 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.