NordVPN lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 151 domains that resemble NordVPN since February 2026, 18 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (72%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 87% of them, out of 11 endings in all. The pace has slowed, with 3 in the last 30 days against 5 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 20 April 2026, with 56 new ones. 39 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.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 (10).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 51 | 4 | 1 | 56 |
| 2026-04-27 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 26 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-03 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 11 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 131 | 86.8% |
| .com.cn | 7 | 4.6% |
| .cn | 2 | 1.3% |
| .net.cn | 2 | 1.3% |
| .online | 2 | 1.3% |
| .org.cn | 2 | 1.3% |
| .at | 1 | 0.7% |
| .mom | 1 | 0.7% |
Where they are registered
For the 128 with a registrar in WHOIS (85% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danesco Trading | 91 | 71.1% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 7 | 5.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 4 | 3.1% | Retail |
| PDR | 3 | 2.3% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 3 | 2.3% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 2 | 1.6% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 2 | 1.6% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 2 | 1.6% | Retail |
What the live ones do
11 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 8 (73%) served a website and 4 (36%) 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 1 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 NordVPN; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
nerdvpn[.]comTypo, Oct 11Not checkedgetnordvpn[.]onlineCombo, Oct 8Serves a websitegetnordvpnapp[.]comCombo, Oct 7Serves a websitenordvpnofficial[.]com[.]cnCombo, Sep 2Not checkednordvpn-app[.]cnCombo, Aug 25Not checkednordvpn-app[.]org[.]cnCombo, Aug 24Not checkednordvpn-app[.]net[.]cnCombo, Aug 24Not checkednordvpn-app[.]comCombo, Aug 17Not checkednordvpnapp[.]netCombo, Aug 10Not checkednordvpn-app[.]atCombo, Aug 9Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with NordVPN. Domains listed resemble NordVPN 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.