BestBuy lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 223 domains that resemble BestBuy since February 2026, 29 of them in the last 90 days. They split between typosquats (58%) and combosquats (38%). .com carries 74% of them, out of 29 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 16 in the last 30 days against 8 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 20 April 2026, with 10 new ones. 118 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: web (6), online (4), official (4), account (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 29 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 164 | 73.5% |
| .shop | 9 | 4.0% |
| .online | 5 | 2.2% |
| .store | 5 | 2.2% |
| .co | 3 | 1.4% |
| .co.uk | 3 | 1.4% |
| .in | 3 | 1.4% |
| .ru | 3 | 1.4% |
Where they are registered
For the 165 with a registrar in WHOIS (74% 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 | 36 | 21.8% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 29 | 17.6% | Retail |
| Above.com | 25 | 15.2% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 7 | 4.2% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 7 | 4.2% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 5 | 3.0% | Retail |
| Internet Domain Service BS | 5 | 3.0% | Retail |
| Alibaba Cloud | 4 | 2.4% | Retail |
What the live ones do
31 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 17 (55%) served a website and 14 (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 8 live ones checked against it.
10 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 BestBuy; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
bestbuywebsitetraffic[.]shopCombo, Oct 12No site or mail when checkedbestbuywebsitetraffic[.]websiteCombo, Oct 12Not checkedbestbuywebsitetraffic[.]onlineCombo, Oct 12Not checkedbestbuywebsitetraffic[.]storeCombo, Oct 12Serves a websitebestbuywebsitetraffic[.]siteCombo, Oct 12Not checkedbestbuywebsitetraffic[.]spaceCombo, Oct 12Serves a websitebestbuyaccountsonline[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websiteMX recordsbestbuydirectory[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websitegetbestbuy[.]shopCombo, Oct 8Serves a websitebestbuyonlineceo[.]comCombo, Oct 7MX records
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with BestBuy. Domains listed resemble BestBuy 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.