Spotify lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 222 domains that resemble Spotify since February 2026, 28 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (50%) and typosquats (47%). .com carries 70% of them, out of 34 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 20 in the last 30 days against 2 in the 30 before. 40 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: app (5), web (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-25 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 34 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 156 | 70.3% |
| .help | 7 | 3.1% |
| .info | 7 | 3.1% |
| .net | 6 | 2.7% |
| .online | 4 | 1.8% |
| .click | 3 | 1.4% |
| .com.cn | 3 | 1.4% |
| .app | 2 | 0.9% |
Where they are registered
For the 155 with a registrar in WHOIS (70% 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 | 35 | 22.6% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 10 | 6.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 10 | 6.5% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 10 | 6.5% | Retail |
| Above.com | 8 | 5.2% | Retail |
| Hosting Concepts | 7 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 7 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 6 | 3.9% | Retail |
What the live ones do
28 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 8 (29%) served a website and 5 (18%) 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 11 live ones checked against it (0%).
11 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 Spotify; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
spotifywebplayer[.]netCombo, Oct 13Not checkedspotifyonlineshop[.]comCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedspotifyapps[.]comCombo, Oct 11Serves a websitemyupdate-myspotify[.]comCombo, Oct 7No site or mail when checkedspot-ify[.]comCombo, Oct 7No site or mail when checkedspotifyaccountnotice[.]comCombo, Oct 6MX recordsspotifywebplayer[.]orgCombo, Oct 5No site or mail when checkedupdatespotify[.]comCombo, Oct 3No site or mail when checkedzpotify[.]comTypo, Oct 2Not checkedspotsify[.]comTypo, Oct 1Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Spotify. Domains listed resemble Spotify 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.