GitLab lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 224 domains that resemble GitLab since February 2026, 12 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (70%) are combosquats: GitLab spelled correctly with a word added. .xyz carries 61% of them, out of 10 endings in all. 37 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
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 10 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .xyz | 137 | 61.2% |
| .com | 78 | 34.8% |
| .net | 2 | 0.9% |
| .best | 1 | 0.4% |
| .cn | 1 | 0.4% |
| .fr | 1 | 0.4% |
| .fun | 1 | 0.4% |
| .ovh | 1 | 0.4% |
Where they are registered
For the 75 with a registrar in WHOIS (33% 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 | 15 | 20.0% | Retail |
| NameBright | 9 | 12.0% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 8 | 10.7% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 5 | 6.7% | Retail |
| Gname | 3 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 3 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Amazon | 2 | 2.7% | Retail |
| Gandi | 2 | 2.7% | Retail |
What the live ones do
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 GitLab; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
mygitlab[.]cnCombo, Oct 8MX recordsgitlabe[.]comTypo, Sep 24Not checkedmy-gitlab[.]comCombo, Sep 22Not checkedgltiab[.]comHomoglyph, Sep 16Not checkedgitlab-auth[.]comCombo, Sep 7No site or mail when checkedxn--gtlab-m3a[.]comShown in a browser as gītlab[.]comHomoglyph, Sep 7Not checkedxn--gtlab-q81b[.]comShown in a browser as gịtlab[.]comHomoglyph, Aug 17Not checkedgitlabb[.]comTypo, Aug 11Not checkedgitla[.]comTypo, Aug 10Not checkedfgitlab[.]comTypo, Jul 26Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with GitLab. Domains listed resemble GitLab 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.