Santander lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 134 domains that resemble Santander since February 2026, 31 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (57%) and typosquats (37%). .com carries 76% of them, out of 16 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 16 in the last 30 days against 11 in the 30 before. 59 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .ph, .net.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 | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 16 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 102 | 76.1% |
| .de | 11 | 8.2% |
| .info | 3 | 2.2% |
| .co | 2 | 1.5% |
| .co.uk | 2 | 1.5% |
| .eu | 2 | 1.5% |
| .mx | 2 | 1.5% |
| .net | 2 | 1.5% |
Where they are registered
For the 94 with a registrar in WHOIS (70% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sav | 12 | 12.8% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 9 | 9.6% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 5 | 5.3% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 5 | 5.3% | Retail |
| MAT BAO | 4 | 4.3% | Retail |
| NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP | 4 | 4.3% | Retail |
| NameBright | 4 | 4.3% | Retail |
| Tucows | 4 | 4.3% | Retail |
What the live ones do
17 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 7 (41%) served a website and 9 (53%) 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 4 of the 10 live ones checked against it (40%).
10 were tracked while live and 2 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 Santander; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
app-banco-santander[.]comCombo, Oct 13Listed by Google Web RiskMX recordssantanderportalrh[.]comCombo, Oct 12Listed by Google Web RiskMX recordssantandersupportdesk[.]comCombo, Oct 12Listed by Google Web RiskServes a websitesantanderhelpdesk[.]infoCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordssantanderservicesusacompany[.]comCombo, Oct 7No site or mail when checkedsantanderverifychat[.]comCombo, Oct 6Listed by Google Web RiskNot checkedsantanderwebdesign[.]comCombo, Oct 5MX recordssantanderconfirming[.]co[.]ukCombo, Oct 4Not checkedsantanderonlinespain[.]comCombo, Oct 4Serves a websitesnatander[.]comTypo, Oct 2Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Santander. Domains listed resemble Santander 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.