Signal lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 556 domains that resemble Signal since February 2026, 146 of them in the last 90 days. Nearly all of them (94%) are combosquats: Signal spelled correctly with a word added, most often “app”, “get”, “true”. No single ending dominates: they are spread over 116, led by .com and .org. The pace has picked up, with 72 in the last 30 days against 35 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 36 new ones. 25 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 (19), get (11), true (9), direct (8), service (7), client (7).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 30 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 25 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-06-22 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 19 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-08-17 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 36 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 116 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 115 | 20.7% |
| .org | 52 | 9.3% |
| .xyz | 34 | 6.1% |
| .ai | 20 | 3.6% |
| .net | 16 | 2.9% |
| .io | 15 | 2.7% |
| .info | 13 | 2.3% |
| .ru | 12 | 2.2% |
Where they are registered
For the 201 with a registrar in WHOIS (36% 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 | 37 | 18.4% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 25 | 12.4% | Retail |
| Hosting Concepts | 17 | 8.5% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 14 | 7.0% | Retail |
| Name.com | 10 | 5.0% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 9 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 8 | 4.0% | Retail |
| IONOS | 8 | 4.0% | Retail |
What the live ones do
174 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 86 (49%) served a website and 90 (52%) 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 52 live ones checked against it (0%).
58 were tracked while live and 1 has 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 Signal; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
signalrecovered[.]comCombo, Oct 14Serves a websitesignaldirection[.]comCombo, Oct 14No site or mail when checkedsignaldirectory[.]infoCombo, Oct 14Serves a websitesignalserviceinc[.]infoCombo, Oct 13MX recordssignalactivated[.]comCombo, Oct 13MX recordsservice-signal[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitesignalweb-whatsapp[.]comCombo, Oct 13Not checkedgetsignal[.]proCombo, Oct 13Not checkedgetauthsignal[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteMX recordsdirectsignal[.]deCombo, Oct 13Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Signal. Domains listed resemble Signal 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.