LinkedIn lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 97 domains that resemble LinkedIn since February 2026, 38 of them in the last 90 days. Nearly all of them (96%) are combosquats: LinkedIn spelled correctly with a word added, most often “invoice”, “account”, “verify”. .com carries 61% of them, out of 28 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 25 in the last 30 days against 4 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 11 new ones. 245 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
A letter swapped for one that looks the same, in ASCII or in Unicode written as punycode. More
One or two keystrokes away from the real name: a letter dropped, doubled, swapped or mistyped. More
Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: invoice (6), account (6), verify (5), app (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 28 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 59 | 60.8% |
| .nl | 4 | 4.1% |
| .net | 3 | 3.1% |
| .online | 3 | 3.1% |
| .org | 3 | 3.1% |
| .eu | 2 | 2.1% |
| .info | 2 | 2.1% |
| .ai | 1 | 1.0% |
Where they are registered
For the 61 with a registrar in WHOIS (63% 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 | 12 | 19.7% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 12 | 19.7% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 5 | 8.2% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 3 | 4.9% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 3 | 4.9% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 3 | 4.9% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 3 | 4.9% | Retail |
| Network Solutions | 2 | 3.3% | Retail |
What the live ones do
33 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 11 (33%) served a website and 17 (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%).
22 were tracked while live and 1 has 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 LinkedIn; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
linkedininvoiceaccount[.]netCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsgetlinkedin-autopilot[.]comCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsverify-linkedin[.]onlineCombo, Oct 10No site or mail when checkedverify-linkedin[.]infoCombo, Oct 10No site or mail when checkedverify-linkedin[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websitelinkedininvoicedue[.]comCombo, Oct 9MX recordslinkedininvoice-bill[.]comCombo, Oct 8MX recordslinkedinaccountreceiveable[.]comCombo, Oct 8MX recordslinkedinaccounts[.]shopCombo, Oct 8Serves a websiteMX recordslinkedininvoicesupport[.]comCombo, Oct 6MX records
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Greyphish is not affiliated with LinkedIn. Domains listed resemble LinkedIn 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.