Railway lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 57 domains that resemble Railway since February 2026, 22 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (89%) are combosquats: Railway spelled correctly with a word added, most often “service”, “gmbh”. No single ending dominates: they are spread over 19, led by .com and .ru. The pace has picked up, with 10 in the last 30 days against 7 in the 30 before. 1 certificate for unregistered .ph names (registry wildcard) is 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
Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: service (10), gmbh (7).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 19 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 17 | 29.8% |
| .ru | 5 | 8.8% |
| .app | 4 | 7.0% |
| .co.uk | 4 | 7.0% |
| .de | 3 | 5.3% |
| .eu | 3 | 5.3% |
| .net | 3 | 5.3% |
| .xyz | 3 | 5.3% |
Where they are registered
For the 21 with a registrar in WHOIS (37% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG | 6 | 28.6% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 3 | 14.3% | Retail |
| NameBright | 3 | 14.3% | Retail |
| 1API | 2 | 9.5% | Retail |
| BigRock Solutions | 1 | 4.8% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 1 | 4.8% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 1 | 4.8% | Retail |
| IONOS | 1 | 4.8% | Retail |
What the live ones do
19 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 15 (79%) served a website and 14 (74%) 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 8 live ones checked against it.
10 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 Railway; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
railwaywebpiano[.]monsterCombo, Oct 8Serves a websiteMX recordsrailwaywebsolutions[.]comCombo, Oct 5Serves a websiterailway-service-gmbh[.]bizCombo, Oct 5Serves a websiteMX recordsrailwaydirectory[.]comCombo, Oct 4No site or mail when checkedrailway-service-gmbh[.]orgCombo, Sep 26Serves a websiteMX recordsrailway-service-gmbh[.]netCombo, Sep 19Not checkedrailway-service[.]orgCombo, Sep 19Serves a websiteMX recordsrailway-service[.]euCombo, Sep 18Serves a websiteMX recordsrailway-service-gmbh[.]infoCombo, Sep 15Serves a websiteMX recordsrailway-service-gmbh[.]deCombo, Sep 14Serves a websiteMX records
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Railway. Domains listed resemble Railway 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.