Dropbox lookalike domains

What kind of lookalikes

Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: customer (4), help (3), app (3).

Lookalikes per week

Endings

The 8 most used of the 27 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.

Where they are registered

For the 113 with a registrar in WHOIS (75% 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.

What the live ones do

11 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 2 (18%) served a website and 6 (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 none of the 1 live ones checked against it.

1 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 Dropbox; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.

• dropboxhelp[.]us
  Combo, Oct 11MX records
• dropboxonline[.]top
  Combo, Oct 7Not checked
• dropsbox[.]com
  Typo, Oct 1Not checked
• dropbox-billing[.]site
  Combo, Sep 29Not checked
• dropboxcom[.]com
  Typo, Sep 28Not checked
• dropbox-login[.]be
  Combo, Sep 12Not checked
• customerdropbox[.]info
  Combo, Sep 10Not checked
• dropbox-alert[.]be
  Combo, Sep 8Not checked
• dropbox-help[.]com
  Combo, Sep 4Not checked
• diropbox[.]com
  Homoglyph, Sep 2Not checked

Further reading

• What combosquatting is, with examples
• Homoglyph and punycode domains, explained
• How to find lookalike domains of your own company
• What to do about a lookalike domain
• The weekly lookalike domain report, across all monitored brands