Spectrum lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 337 domains that resemble Spectrum since February 2026, 68 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (67%) are combosquats: Spectrum spelled correctly with a word added, most often “service”, “web”, “app”. .com carries 56% of them, out of 58 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 38 in the last 30 days against 13 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 25 new ones. 8 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.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
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: service (13), web (9), app (9), account (4), online (4), support (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-07-13 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-07-20 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 25 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 58 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 190 | 56.4% |
| .net | 17 | 5.0% |
| .org | 10 | 3.0% |
| .co.uk | 8 | 2.4% |
| .site | 8 | 2.4% |
| .xyz | 7 | 2.1% |
| .de | 6 | 1.8% |
| .online | 6 | 1.8% |
Where they are registered
For the 199 with a registrar in WHOIS (59% 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 | 44 | 22.1% | Retail |
| NameBright | 22 | 11.1% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 12 | 6.0% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 11 | 5.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 8 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Network Solutions | 8 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 7 | 3.5% | Retail |
| PDR | 7 | 3.5% | Retail |
What the live ones do
73 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 45 (62%) served a website and 47 (64%) 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 26 live ones checked against it (0%).
29 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 Spectrum; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
spectrumrecoverysolutions[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteMX recordsmyspectrum[.]oneCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitespectrumservicesqld[.]com[.]auCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteMX recordsspectrumwebstudios[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteMX recordsspectrumwebagency[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitespectrumv[.]comTypo, Oct 12Not checkedspectrumwebdesign[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordsspectrumaccountings[.]inCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsspectrumapparel[.]com[.]pkCombo, Oct 11MX recordsspectrumservice3[.]siteCombo, Oct 10Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Spectrum. Domains listed resemble Spectrum 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.