Emirates lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 143 domains that resemble Emirates since February 2026, 40 of them in the last 90 days. They split between typosquats (51%) and combosquats (45%). .com carries 83% of them, out of 15 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 22 in the last 30 days against 7 in the 30 before. 26 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 (5).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 15 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 118 | 82.5% |
| .ae | 4 | 2.8% |
| .net | 3 | 2.1% |
| .site | 3 | 2.1% |
| .click | 2 | 1.4% |
| .online | 2 | 1.4% |
| .ru | 2 | 1.4% |
| .store | 2 | 1.4% |
Where they are registered
For the 104 with a registrar in WHOIS (73% 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 | 21 | 20.2% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 12 | 11.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 8 | 7.7% | Retail |
| PDR | 6 | 5.8% | Retail |
| Name.com | 4 | 3.9% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 4 | 3.9% | Retail |
| Above.com | 3 | 2.9% | Retail |
| Internet Domain Service BS | 3 | 2.9% | Retail |
What the live ones do
31 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 14 (45%) served a website and 12 (39%) 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 15 live ones checked against it (0%).
18 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 Emirates; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
emirateswebmaster[.]comCombo, Oct 14MX recordsemiratesaccountant[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordsemirateswebvork[.]comCombo, Oct 10No site or mail when checkedemiratesaccounting[.]comCombo, Oct 8No site or mail when checkedemirateswebfusion[.]comCombo, Oct 8Serves a websiteMX recordsemiratesrenewables[.]aeCombo, Oct 7Serves a websiteMX recordsemiratesdirectory[.]aeCombo, Oct 7No site or mail when checkedemirateswebstudio[.]onlineCombo, Oct 6MX recordsemirateswebventures[.]comCombo, Oct 5No site or mail when checkedemiratesonlineshoping[.]comCombo, Oct 5Serves a website
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Emirates. Domains listed resemble Emirates 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.