Square lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 381 domains that resemble Square since February 2026, 111 of them in the last 90 days. Nearly all of them (92%) are combosquats: Square's name or one of its product names spelled correctly with a word added, most often “web”, “true”, “support”. .com carries 43% of them, out of 79 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 61 in the last 30 days against 25 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 29 new ones. 42 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .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: web (15), true (10), support (6), secure (6), service (5), account (5).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026-07-06 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2026-07-13 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026-08-10 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 28 | 29 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 79 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 164 | 43.0% |
| .xyz | 22 | 5.8% |
| .net | 13 | 3.4% |
| .org | 10 | 2.6% |
| .online | 9 | 2.4% |
| .in | 8 | 2.1% |
| .co | 7 | 1.8% |
| .info | 7 | 1.8% |
Where they are registered
For the 179 with a registrar in WHOIS (47% 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 | 38 | 21.2% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 16 | 8.9% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 8 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Tucows | 8 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 7 | 3.9% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 7 | 3.9% | Retail |
| NameBright | 7 | 3.9% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 6 | 3.4% | Retail |
What the live ones do
103 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 63 (61%) served a website and 60 (58%) 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 47 live ones checked against it (0%).
53 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 Square; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
squareapples[.]orgCombo, Oct 14No site or mail when checkedsquareapplications[.]comCombo, Oct 13MX recordssquareapple[.]studioCombo, Oct 13MX recordssquare1services[.]com[.]auCombo, Oct 13MX recordssquareservicesllc[.]comCombo, Oct 13Serves a websiteauthsquare[.]xyzCombo, Oct 12Not checkedsquareappliancerepair[.]comCombo, Oct 12MX recordssquareresets-intelss[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordssquareapps[.]ioCombo, Oct 12MX recordssquareweb[.]xyzCombo, Oct 11No site or mail when checked
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Square. Domains listed resemble Square 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.