Shein lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 162 domains that resemble Shein since February 2026, 22 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (69%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 80% of them, out of 23 endings in all. The pace is steady: 6 in the last 30 days, 7 in the 30 before. 12 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
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 (4).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-04-27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 23 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 130 | 80.3% |
| .online | 4 | 2.5% |
| .ru | 3 | 1.8% |
| .cfd | 2 | 1.2% |
| .sbs | 2 | 1.2% |
| .site | 2 | 1.2% |
| .store | 2 | 1.2% |
| .xyz | 2 | 1.2% |
Where they are registered
For the 121 with a registrar in WHOIS (75% 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 | 18 | 14.9% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 14 | 11.6% | Retail |
| NameBright | 14 | 11.6% | Retail |
| Gname | 8 | 6.6% | Retail |
| Sav | 7 | 5.8% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 6 | 5.0% | Retail |
| Network Solutions | 5 | 4.1% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 5 | 4.1% | 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 Shein; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
sheij[.]comTypo, Oct 3Not checkedsheih[.]comTypo, Oct 1Not checkedxn--shen-nza[.]comShown in a browser as sheın[.]comHomoglyph, Sep 25Serves a websiteqhein[.]comTypo, Sep 23Not checkedqshein[.]comTypo, Sep 21Not checkedsheinportal[.]plCombo, Sep 21Not checkedmyshein[.]siteCombo, Sep 2Serves a websitesheir[.]comHomoglyph, Aug 30Not checkedsheinapp[.]orgCombo, Aug 30Not checkedapp-shein[.]com[.]cnCombo, Aug 22Not checked
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Shein. Domains listed resemble Shein 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.