Kayak lookalike domains

What kind of lookalikes

Lookalikes per week

Endings

The 8 most used of the 16 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.

Where they are registered

For the 105 with a registrar in WHOIS (82% 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.

What the live ones do

10 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 7 (70%) served a website and 3 (30%) 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 2 live ones checked against it.

2 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 Kayak; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.

• kzyak[.]com
  Typo, Oct 11Not checked
• kayakonline[.]com
  Combo, Oct 9MX records
• kayake[.]com
  Typo, Oct 9Not checked
• kayakservicesllc[.]com
  Combo, Oct 7Serves a websiteMX records
• mykayak[.]de
  Combo, Sep 11Not checked
• kaiak[.]com
  Typo, Sep 1Not checked
• kmayak[.]com
  Typo, Aug 27Not checked
• kyak[.]com
  Typo, Aug 20Not checked
• mykayak[.]in
  Combo, Aug 18Not checked
• kagak[.]com
  Typo, Aug 12Not checked

Further reading

• What combosquatting is, with examples
• Homoglyph and punycode domains, explained
• How to find lookalike domains of your own company
• What to do about a lookalike domain
• The weekly lookalike domain report, across all monitored brands