Target lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 600 domains that resemble Target since February 2026, 70 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (73%) are combosquats: Target spelled correctly with a word added, most often “app”, “web”, “account”. .com carries 40% of them, out of 76 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 40 in the last 30 days against 16 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 4 May 2026, with 81 new ones. 13 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: app (11), web (8), account (5), direct (5), claim (5), online (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 17 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 71 | 8 | 2 | 81 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-06-22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 76 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 241 | 40.2% |
| .xyz | 176 | 29.3% |
| .net | 11 | 1.8% |
| .org | 11 | 1.8% |
| .ru | 10 | 1.7% |
| .co.uk | 9 | 1.5% |
| .de | 7 | 1.2% |
| .info | 6 | 1.0% |
Where they are registered
For the 265 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 | 161 | 60.8% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 10 | 3.8% | Retail |
| NameBright | 8 | 3.0% | Retail |
| Corsearch | 7 | 2.6% | Brand protection |
| OVH | 7 | 2.6% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 4 | 1.5% | Retail |
| Gransy | 4 | 1.5% | Retail |
| PDR | 4 | 1.5% | Retail |
What the live ones do
71 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 45 (63%) served a website and 47 (66%) 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 23 live ones checked against it (0%).
28 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 Target; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
targetwebservices[.]co[.]ukCombo, Oct 14Serves a websiteMX recordstargetaccountiq[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordsgettarget[.]ccCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteget-on-target[.]comCombo, Oct 12Not checkedtargetaccounting[.]com[.]auCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordstargetapplicationllc[.]orgCombo, Oct 11Serves a websitegettarget-ref[.]ruCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsconceptwebsite-targetwebs[.]nlCombo, Oct 10Not checkedgettarget[.]ioCombo, Oct 10Serves a websitegettarget[.]deCombo, Oct 10Serves a website
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Further reading
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Target. Domains listed resemble Target 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.