Skype lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 107 domains that resemble Skype since February 2026, 14 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (70%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 82% of them, out of 15 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 7 in the last 30 days against 1 in the 30 before. 26 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.ph, .org.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 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 15 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 88 | 82.2% |
| .com.cn | 5 | 4.7% |
| .info | 2 | 1.9% |
| .ai | 1 | 0.9% |
| .co | 1 | 0.9% |
| .co.uk | 1 | 0.9% |
| .de | 1 | 0.9% |
| .eu | 1 | 0.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 83 with a registrar in WHOIS (78% 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 | 20 | 24.1% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 7 | 8.4% | Retail |
| Gname | 5 | 6.0% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 5 | 6.0% | Retail |
| Name.com | 4 | 4.8% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 3 | 3.6% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 3 | 3.6% | Retail |
| NameBright | 3 | 3.6% | 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 Skype; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
skyqe[.]comTypo, Oct 12Not checkedgetskype[.]comCombo, Oct 8No site or mail when checkedskypm[.]comTypo, Oct 6Not checkedskyspe[.]comTypo, Oct 1Not checkedskype-counselling-online[.]co[.]ukCombo, Sep 19Not checkedakype[.]comTypo, Sep 17Not checkedskyp[.]comTypo, Sep 16Not checkedxkype[.]comTypo, Aug 23Not checkedgriechisch-lernen-online-skype[.]comCombo, Aug 11Not checkedservice-skype[.]comCombo, Aug 10Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Skype. Domains listed resemble Skype 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.