Reddit lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 147 domains that resemble Reddit since February 2026, 19 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (69%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 89% of them, out of 12 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 9 in the last 30 days against 1 in the 30 before. 26 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .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 (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 12 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 131 | 89.1% |
| .info | 4 | 2.7% |
| .co | 2 | 1.4% |
| .com.cn | 2 | 1.4% |
| .ai | 1 | 0.7% |
| .link | 1 | 0.7% |
| .mil.ph | 1 | 0.7% |
| .online | 1 | 0.7% |
Where they are registered
For the 125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 35 | 28.0% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 14 | 11.2% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 8 | 6.4% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 7 | 5.6% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 5 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Above.com | 4 | 3.2% | Retail |
| Network Solutions | 4 | 3.2% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 4 | 3.2% | Retail |
What the live ones do
16 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 6 (38%) served a website and 7 (44%) 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 4 live ones checked against it.
6 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 Reddit; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
reddithelp[.]websiteCombo, Oct 8Serves a websitereddithelper[.]comCombo, Oct 8No site or mail when checkedgetreddit[.]coCombo, Oct 7MX recordsredidit[.]comHomoglyph, Oct 1No site or mail when checkedreddiz[.]comTypo, Oct 1Not checkedreddita[.]comTypo, Sep 30Not checkedreddit-app[.]comCombo, Sep 23No site or mail when checkedapp-reddit[.]comCombo, Sep 23No site or mail when checkedredduit[.]comTypo, Sep 17Not checkedredditu[.]comTypo, Aug 21Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Reddit. Domains listed resemble Reddit 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.