Shopify lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 420 domains that resemble Shopify since February 2026, 101 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (62%) are combosquats: Shopify spelled correctly with a word added, most often “app”, “web”, “support”. .com carries 62% of them, out of 75 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 62 in the last 30 days against 19 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 20 April 2026, with 68 new ones. 27 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 (20), web (15), support (7), com (5), account (5), secure (4).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 58 | 8 | 2 | 68 |
| 2026-04-27 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 21 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-08 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-06-15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-07-06 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 36 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 75 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 261 | 62.1% |
| .store | 26 | 6.2% |
| .online | 10 | 2.4% |
| .org | 7 | 1.7% |
| .de | 6 | 1.4% |
| .net | 5 | 1.2% |
| .shop | 5 | 1.2% |
| .co | 4 | 0.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 262 with a registrar in WHOIS (62% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU | 82 | 31.3% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 41 | 15.7% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 17 | 6.5% | Retail |
| Danesco Trading | 12 | 4.6% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 9 | 3.4% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 7 | 2.7% | Retail |
| GMO Internet Group | 7 | 2.7% | Retail |
| MarkMonitor | 7 | 2.7% | Brand protection |
What the live ones do
64 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 33 (52%) served a website and 29 (45%) 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 1 of the 35 live ones checked against it (3%).
47 were tracked while live and 9 have since gone down, a median 1d 8h after they were first seen. 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 Shopify; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
syqhf0-6k-myshopify-com[.]storeCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedabmqax-8x-myshopify-com[.]storeCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedsecure-dashboard-accounts-shopify[.]comCombo, Oct 13Not checkedart-by-renata-edin-myshopify[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordsshopifywebolutions[.]coCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsshopifywebsbuilders[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteMX recordskic391-w5-myshopify-com[.]storeCombo, Oct 10No site or mail when checkedaccount-shopify-app[.]comCombo, Oct 10Not checkedshopifywebcreators[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteMX recordsshopifysupport[.]onlineCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteMX records
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Shopify. Domains listed resemble Shopify 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.