Facebook lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 153 domains that resemble Facebook since February 2026, 43 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (62%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 90% of them, out of 17 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 35 in the last 30 days against 3 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 21 September 2026, with 18 new ones. 9,655 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: support (16), verify (3), login (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 18 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 17 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 137 | 89.5% |
| .autos | 1 | 0.7% |
| .beauty | 1 | 0.7% |
| .biz | 1 | 0.7% |
| .click | 1 | 0.7% |
| .homes | 1 | 0.7% |
| .info | 1 | 0.7% |
| .lat | 1 | 0.7% |
Where they are registered
For the 131 with a registrar in WHOIS (86% 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 | 22 | 16.8% | Retail |
| Above.com | 14 | 10.7% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 14 | 10.7% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 13 | 9.9% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 10 | 7.6% | Retail |
| Gname | 7 | 5.3% | Retail |
| Internet Domain Service BS | 7 | 5.3% | Retail |
| April Sea | 3 | 2.3% | Retail |
What the live ones do
27 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 2 (7%) served a website and 9 (33%) 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 20 live ones checked against it (5%).
21 were tracked while live and 12 have since gone down, a median 10d 14h after they were first seen. 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 Facebook; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
facebookhelp-business[.]comCombo, Oct 12No site or mail when checkedxn--facbook-v8a[.]comShown in a browser as facėbook[.]comHomoglyph, Oct 12No site or mail when checkedgetfacebook[.]infoCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordssupportfacebook[.]restCombo, Oct 11MX recordsfacebooksupportsmails[.]comCombo, Oct 9Not checkedfacebookverifybusinesses[.]comCombo, Oct 8MX recordsnoreply-supportfacebook[.]comCombo, Oct 8Not checkedfagebook[.]comTypo, Oct 8Not checkedfacebookaccountmail[.]comCombo, Oct 5MX recordsfacebookloginmail[.]comCombo, Oct 5No site or mail when checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Facebook. Domains listed resemble Facebook 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.