Twitter lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 167 domains that resemble Twitter since February 2026, 20 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (69%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 89% of them, out of 12 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 17 in the last 30 days against 3 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 20 April 2026, with 10 new ones. 50 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 (4).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-05-11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-09-21 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 12 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 149 | 89.2% |
| .net | 4 | 2.4% |
| .de | 3 | 1.8% |
| .co.uk | 2 | 1.2% |
| .xyz | 2 | 1.2% |
| .be | 1 | 0.6% |
| .ch | 1 | 0.6% |
| .co | 1 | 0.6% |
Where they are registered
For the 150 with a registrar in WHOIS (90% 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 | 28 | 18.7% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 11 | 7.3% | Retail |
| Porkbun | 10 | 6.7% | Retail |
| eName Technology | 10 | 6.7% | Retail |
| Above.com | 7 | 4.7% | Retail |
| Gname | 7 | 4.7% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 6 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 6 | 4.0% | Retail |
What the live ones do
17 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 4 (24%) served a website and 12 (71%) 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 7 live ones checked against it.
7 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 Twitter; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
twistter[.]comTypo, Oct 12Not checkedtwitterwebviewer[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websitetwitterappmaker[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websitetwitteraccount[.]comCombo, Oct 8MX recordstwitterappraiser[.]comCombo, Oct 5MX recordstwitterapps[.]co[.]ukCombo, Oct 5MX recordstwitterhelper[.]xyzCombo, Oct 5No site or mail when checkedtwitterapps[.]comCombo, Oct 4MX recordstwsitter[.]comTypo, Sep 26Not checkedtwitterh[.]comTypo, Sep 24Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Twitter. Domains listed resemble Twitter 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.