ProtonVPN lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 62 domains that resemble ProtonVPN since February 2026, 5 of them in the last 90 days. They split between typosquats (58%) and combosquats (42%). .com carries 73% of them, out of 14 endings in all. 2 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
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 14 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 45 | 72.6% |
| .com.cn | 5 | 8.1% |
| .click | 1 | 1.6% |
| .cyou | 1 | 1.6% |
| .fun | 1 | 1.6% |
| .help | 1 | 1.6% |
| .hl.cn | 1 | 1.6% |
| .homes | 1 | 1.6% |
Where they are registered
For the 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynadot | 9 | 20.0% | Retail |
| Gname | 7 | 15.6% | Retail |
| Cosmotown | 6 | 13.3% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 4 | 8.9% | Retail |
| Above.com | 2 | 4.4% | Retail |
| Alibaba Cloud | 2 | 4.4% | Retail |
| GMO Internet Group | 2 | 4.4% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 2 | 4.4% | 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 ProtonVPN; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
protonvpn-app[.]com[.]cnCombo, Oct 1Serves a websiteprotonvpnx[.]comTypo, Aug 1Not checkedprotonvpn-app[.]helpCombo, Jul 27Not checkedppotonvpn[.]comTypo, Jul 20Not checkedprotonvpn-secure[.]clickCombo, Jul 19No site or mail when checkedprotonvpn-app[.]hl[.]cnCombo, Jul 7Not checkedmy-protonvpn-free[.]comCombo, Jun 22Not checkedprotonvpnsecure[.]comCombo, Jun 18Not checkedprotonvpn-web[.]com[.]cnCombo, Jun 13No site or mail when checkedprotonbpn[.]comTypo, Jun 2Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with ProtonVPN. Domains listed resemble ProtonVPN 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.