Meetup lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 109 domains that resemble Meetup since February 2026, 15 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (63%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 84% of them, out of 16 endings in all. The pace has slowed, with 3 in the last 30 days against 7 in the 30 before. 3 certificates for unregistered .ph names (registry wildcard) are excluded: the registry answers for any name under that ending, 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: app (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-01 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-07-06 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 16 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 92 | 84.4% |
| .biz | 2 | 1.8% |
| .info | 2 | 1.8% |
| .ca | 1 | 0.9% |
| .click | 1 | 0.9% |
| .club | 1 | 0.9% |
| .co.uk | 1 | 0.9% |
| .de | 1 | 0.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 80 with a registrar in WHOIS (73% 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 | 21 | 26.3% | Retail |
| NameBright | 10 | 12.5% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 8 | 10.0% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 4 | 5.0% | Retail |
| PDR | 3 | 3.8% | Retail |
| GMO Internet Group | 2 | 2.5% | Retail |
| Gname | 2 | 2.5% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 2 | 2.5% | 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 Meetup; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
mymeetup5[.]bizCombo, Sep 30MX recordsmedtup[.]comTypo, Sep 28Not checkedmeetu[.]comTypo, Sep 20Not checkednectup[.]comHomoglyph, Sep 14Not checkedmymeetup4[.]bizCombo, Sep 9Not checkedofficialmeetup[.]comCombo, Sep 8Not checkedmeatup[.]comTypo, Sep 8Not checkedmeetupcenter[.]comCombo, Aug 31Not checkedmsetup[.]comTypo, Aug 29Not checkedmeetup-app[.]infoCombo, Aug 26Not checked
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Meetup. Domains listed resemble Meetup 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.