Bethesda lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 52 domains that resemble Bethesda since February 2026, 8 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (58%) and typosquats (42%). .net carries 46% of them, out of 9 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 6 in the last 30 days against 0 in the 30 before. 2 certificates for unregistered .com.ph names (registry wildcard) are 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
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 9 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .net | 24 | 46.2% |
| .com | 13 | 25.0% |
| .org | 7 | 13.5% |
| .de | 3 | 5.8% |
| .church | 1 | 1.9% |
| .design | 1 | 1.9% |
| .info | 1 | 1.9% |
| .shop | 1 | 1.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 44 with a registrar in WHOIS (85% 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 | 11 | 25.0% | Retail |
| Gransy | 8 | 18.2% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 5 | 11.4% | Retail |
| Network Solutions | 4 | 9.1% | Retail |
| PDR | 4 | 9.1% | Retail |
| Above.com | 2 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 2 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Tucows | 2 | 4.5% | Retail |
What the live ones do
Google Web Risk lists none of the 4 live ones checked against it.
5 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 Bethesda; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
bethesdahelpinghands[.]orgCombo, Oct 14Serves a websitebethesdawebdesign[.]comCombo, Oct 8Serves a websiteMX recordsbethesdaservices[.]comCombo, Oct 7Serves a websiteMX recordsmybethesda[.]comCombo, Oct 5No site or mail when checkedbethesdarecovery[.]netCombo, Oct 4Serves a websiteMX recordsbethesdaappliancerepair[.]shopCombo, Oct 4Not checkedservicebethesda[.]comCombo, Aug 7Not checkedbethesdasupport[.]orgCombo, Jul 21Not checkedbethesdasupport[.]infoCombo, Jun 24Not checkedbethsda[.]netTypo, Jun 17Not checked
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