Rakuten lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 80 domains that resemble Rakuten since February 2026, 13 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (75%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 90% of them, out of 8 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 7 in the last 30 days against 4 in the 30 before. 23 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
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-11 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 8 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 72 | 90.0% |
| .shop | 2 | 2.5% |
| .club | 1 | 1.3% |
| .co | 1 | 1.3% |
| .co.jp | 1 | 1.3% |
| .com.tw | 1 | 1.3% |
| .io | 1 | 1.3% |
| .net | 1 | 1.3% |
Where they are registered
For the 63 with a registrar in WHOIS (79% 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 | 8 | 12.7% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 6 | 9.5% | Retail |
| Above.com | 5 | 7.9% | Retail |
| GMO Internet Group | 4 | 6.3% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 4 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 3 | 4.8% | Retail |
| AppCroNix Infotech Private | 2 | 3.2% | Retail |
| MarkMonitor | 2 | 3.2% | Brand protection |
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 Rakuten; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
rakuden[.]comTypo, Oct 12Not checkedraouten[.]comTypo, Oct 9Not checkedrakuzen[.]comTypo, Sep 30Not checkedtch1964-rakuten-app[.]comCombo, Sep 30Not checkedrakutens[.]comTypo, Sep 27Not checkederakuten[.]comTypo, Sep 26Not checkedrakutenwallet[.]coCombo, Sep 17Not checkedrakutena[.]comTypo, Sep 5Not checkedrakyten[.]comTypo, Aug 28Not checkedrakutenwallet[.]ioCombo, Aug 20Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Rakuten. Domains listed resemble Rakuten 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.