Instagram lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 132 domains that resemble Instagram since February 2026, 29 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (68%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 95% of them, out of 7 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 21 in the last 30 days against 6 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 20 April 2026, with 11 new ones. 887 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: account (4).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| 2026-04-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-09-28 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Endings
The 7 most used of the 7 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 125 | 94.7% |
| .net | 2 | 1.5% |
| .ir | 1 | 0.8% |
| .nl | 1 | 0.8% |
| .shop | 1 | 0.8% |
| .top | 1 | 0.8% |
| .world | 1 | 0.8% |
Where they are registered
For the 113 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 | 19.5% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 14 | 12.4% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 11 | 9.7% | Retail |
| Above.com | 9 | 8.0% | Retail |
| Sav | 9 | 8.0% | Retail |
| Name.com | 7 | 6.2% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 4 | 3.5% | Retail |
| NameBright | 3 | 2.6% | Retail |
What the live ones do
12 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 6 (50%) served a website and 6 (50%) 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 2 of the 11 live ones checked against it (18%).
11 were tracked while live and 2 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 Instagram; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
instagram-support[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteinstagramaccountrecovery[.]comCombo, Oct 11No site or mail when checkedinstagramhelpservice[.]netCombo, Oct 9Serves a websiteMX recordsinstagramloginmail[.]comCombo, Oct 8MX recordsinstagramaccountverwijderen[.]nlCombo, Oct 7Serves a websiteinstagramonline[.]shopCombo, Oct 7Not checkedinstagramweb[.]comCombo, Oct 6Listed by Google Web RiskNo site or mail when checkedinstagramwebs[.]comCombo, Oct 4MX recordsinszagram[.]comTypo, Oct 4Not checkedinstagramaccountsforsale[.]comCombo, Oct 4Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Instagram. Domains listed resemble Instagram 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.