Stripe lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 164 domains that resemble Stripe since February 2026, 33 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (54%) and typosquats (41%). .com carries 79% of them, out of 26 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 17 in the last 30 days against 4 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 20 April 2026, with 10 new ones. 45 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .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: secure (4), online (3), update (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-09-21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 26 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 130 | 79.3% |
| .xyz | 5 | 3.0% |
| .org | 3 | 1.8% |
| .io | 2 | 1.2% |
| .net | 2 | 1.2% |
| .shop | 2 | 1.2% |
| .ai | 1 | 0.6% |
| .app | 1 | 0.6% |
Where they are registered
For the 126 with a registrar in WHOIS (77% 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 | 18 | 14.3% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 17 | 13.5% | Retail |
| SafeNames | 16 | 12.7% | Brand protection |
| Namecheap | 9 | 7.1% | Retail |
| NameBright | 8 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Name.com | 4 | 3.2% | Retail |
| eNom | 4 | 3.2% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 3 | 2.4% | Retail |
What the live ones do
25 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 7 (28%) served a website and 7 (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 none of the 9 live ones checked against it.
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 Stripe; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
stripeaccountfrozen[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websitegetstripealerts[.]comCombo, Oct 9Serves a websiteMX recordsgetstripe[.]xyzCombo, Oct 9No site or mail when checkedstripeapparel[.]comCombo, Oct 7No site or mail when checkedstripesecurepay-system[.]shopCombo, Oct 6Serves a websitestripesecurepay-system[.]web[.]idCombo, Oct 5Serves a websitestripesecurepayment[.]comCombo, Oct 5MX recordscheckout-stripesecurepayment-sg[.]cyouCombo, Oct 5No site or mail when checkedstripeaccountancy[.]co[.]ukCombo, Oct 4MX recordssecurestripe[.]comCombo, Oct 1No site or mail when checked
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Stripe. Domains listed resemble Stripe 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.