Steam lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 433 domains that resemble Steam since February 2026, 119 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (83%) are combosquats: Steam's name or one of its product names spelled correctly with a word added, most often “unlock”, “app”, “web”. No single ending dominates: they are spread over 106, led by .com and .org. The pace has picked up, with 90 in the last 30 days against 17 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 46 new ones. 45 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: unlock (42), app (9), web (8), help (6), center (5), real (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-25 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-06-15 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-24 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-09-14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 46 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 106 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 169 | 39.0% |
| .org | 16 | 3.7% |
| .net | 14 | 3.2% |
| .xyz | 14 | 3.2% |
| .online | 13 | 3.0% |
| .ru | 13 | 3.0% |
| .store | 9 | 2.1% |
| .com.cn | 7 | 1.6% |
Where they are registered
For the 191 with a registrar in WHOIS (44% 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 | 27 | 14.1% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 16 | 8.4% | Retail |
| NameBright | 14 | 7.3% | Retail |
| PDR | 11 | 5.8% | Retail |
| Above.com | 10 | 5.2% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 9 | 4.7% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 8 | 4.2% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 7 | 3.7% | Retail |
What the live ones do
145 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 86 (59%) served a website and 40 (28%) 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 1 of the 68 live ones checked against it (1%).
78 were tracked while live and 2 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 Steam; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
steamunlocked-to[.]comCombo, Oct 14Serves a websitesteamappealvalve[.]comCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedsteamunlocked-to[.]latCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitesteamunlocked[.]helpCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedsteamunlocked[.]sbsCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitesteamunlocker[.]vuCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedsteamunlocked-to[.]infoCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedsteamunlock[.]livingCombo, Oct 13Not checkedsteamhelper[.]appCombo, Oct 13Serves a websitesteamunlocked[.]lockerCombo, Oct 13Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Steam. Domains listed resemble Steam 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.