Minecraft lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 197 domains that resemble Minecraft since February 2026, 34 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (55%) and typosquats (39%). .net carries 51% of them, out of 41 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 17 in the last 30 days against 6 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 10 new ones. 4 certificates for unregistered .ph, .org.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: app (5), online (5), help (4), account (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-08 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 41 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .net | 101 | 51.3% |
| .com | 32 | 16.2% |
| .ru | 7 | 3.5% |
| .org | 4 | 2.0% |
| .xyz | 4 | 2.0% |
| .de | 3 | 1.5% |
| .online | 3 | 1.5% |
| .store | 3 | 1.5% |
Where they are registered
For the 126 with a registrar in WHOIS (64% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above.com | 22 | 17.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 14 | 11.1% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 14 | 11.1% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 12 | 9.5% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 9 | 7.1% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 8 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 8 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 5 | 4.0% | Retail |
What the live ones do
36 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 19 (53%) served a website and 10 (28%) 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 6 live ones checked against it.
7 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 Minecraft; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
minecraftaccounts[.]comCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsminecraft-app[.]storeCombo, Oct 10No site or mail when checkedminecraftofficials[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteminecraftapps[.]netCombo, Oct 9Serves a websiteminecraftonline[.]com[.]brCombo, Oct 8Not checkedminecraftonline[.]lolCombo, Oct 8Serves a websitemibecraft[.]netTypo, Oct 7Not checkedminexraft[.]netTypo, Oct 7Not checkedmyminecraft[.]euCombo, Oct 5Not checkedminecrafthelper[.]spaceCombo, Oct 5Serves a website
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Minecraft. Domains listed resemble Minecraft 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.