Discover lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 319 domains that resemble Discover since February 2026, 69 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (65%) are combosquats: Discover spelled correctly with a word added, most often “web”, “app”, “online”. .com carries 62% of them, out of 47 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 49 in the last 30 days against 5 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 27 new ones. 24 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .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: web (12), app (10), online (8), direct (4), college (4), account (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-07-13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 12 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 27 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 47 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 199 | 62.4% |
| .org | 13 | 4.1% |
| .info | 9 | 2.8% |
| .sbs | 9 | 2.8% |
| .xyz | 9 | 2.8% |
| .co | 8 | 2.5% |
| .net | 7 | 2.2% |
| .co.uk | 6 | 1.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 206 with a registrar in WHOIS (65% 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 | 44 | 21.4% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 27 | 13.1% | Retail |
| NameBright | 14 | 6.8% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 13 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 12 | 5.8% | Retail |
| Above.com | 7 | 3.4% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 5 | 2.4% | Retail |
| CSC | 4 | 1.9% | Brand protection |
What the live ones do
75 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 48 (64%) served a website and 41 (55%) 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 1 of the 39 live ones checked against it (3%).
42 were tracked while live and 1 has 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 Discover; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
discover-refund[.]devCombo, Oct 13MX recordsdiscoverapptemu[.]web[.]idCombo, Oct 13Listed by Google Web RiskServes a websitediscoveronline[.]nlCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteMX recordsdiscoverappliedinsights[.]comCombo, Oct 12No site or mail when checkeddiscoveronlinedeals[.]comCombo, Oct 12No site or mail when checkeddiscoverrecovery[.]orgCombo, Oct 12Serves a websitediscoverhelpfultrends[.]comCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsdiscoverrenewal[.]orgCombo, Oct 11No site or mail when checkeddiscoverwebsolutions[.]coCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsdiscoversecure24[.]infoCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX records
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Discover. Domains listed resemble Discover 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.