Hotels.com lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 424 domains that resemble Hotels.com since February 2026, 68 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (67%) are combosquats: Hotels.com spelled correctly with a word added, most often “direct”, “online”, “app”. .com carries 60% of them, out of 67 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 36 in the last 30 days against 12 in the 30 before. 31 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.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: direct (11), online (9), app (8), web (3), verify (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-04 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-25 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-06-29 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-07-06 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-03 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-09-21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
| 2026-10-05 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 67 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 254 | 59.9% |
| .de | 14 | 3.3% |
| .xyz | 14 | 3.3% |
| .net | 13 | 3.1% |
| .cfd | 9 | 2.1% |
| .ru | 9 | 2.1% |
| .eu | 7 | 1.7% |
| .in | 7 | 1.7% |
Where they are registered
For the 256 with a registrar in WHOIS (60% 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 | 74 | 28.9% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 16 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 15 | 5.9% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 9 | 3.5% | Retail |
| NameBright | 8 | 3.1% | Retail |
| Above.com | 7 | 2.7% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 6 | 2.3% | Retail |
| eNom | 6 | 2.3% | Retail |
What the live ones do
87 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 44 (51%) served a website and 45 (52%) 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 17 live ones checked against it (0%).
21 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 Hotels.com; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
hotelsdirectory[.]itCombo, Oct 14MX recordshotelsdirect[.]infoCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteMX recordshotelswebsitedesign[.]comCombo, Oct 12No site or mail when checkedget-hotels[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordshotelsdirectoryofindia[.]comCombo, Oct 11Serves a websitehatels[.]comTypo, Oct 10Not checkedhotelsdirect[.]orgCombo, Oct 10Serves a websitecannes-online-hotels[.]deCombo, Oct 10Serves a websitedirect2hotels[.]comCombo, Oct 9No site or mail when checkedhotelsonlinegroup[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websiteMX records
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Hotels.com. Domains listed resemble Hotels.com 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.