Valve lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 84 domains that resemble Valve since February 2026, 19 of them in the last 90 days. Nearly all of them (90%) are combosquats: Valve spelled correctly with a word added, most often “service”, “true”. .com carries 55% of them, out of 21 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 10 in the last 30 days against 4 in the 30 before. 209 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.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: service (6), true (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 21 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 46 | 54.8% |
| .ru | 5 | 5.9% |
| .ca | 4 | 4.8% |
| .co.uk | 4 | 4.8% |
| .com.au | 3 | 3.6% |
| .de | 3 | 3.6% |
| .xyz | 3 | 3.6% |
| .cn | 2 | 2.4% |
Where they are registered
For the 44 with a registrar in WHOIS (52% 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 | 8 | 18.2% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 5 | 11.4% | Retail |
| Global Domain Group | 4 | 9.1% | Retail |
| Hello Internet | 3 | 6.8% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 3 | 6.8% | Retail |
| 123-Reg | 2 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Network Solutions | 2 | 4.5% | Retail |
| RegistryGate | 2 | 4.5% | Retail |
What the live ones do
15 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 9 (60%) served a website and 4 (27%) 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 8 live ones checked against it.
10 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 Valve; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
true-valve[.]comCombo, Oct 14No site or mail when checkedvalveserviceengine[.]caCombo, Oct 13No site or mail when checkedauthvalve[.]xyzCombo, Oct 13Not checkedvalveservices[.]roCombo, Oct 11Serves a websiteMX recordsrealvalve[.]xyzCombo, Oct 11No site or mail when checkedvalveservices[.]com[.]auCombo, Oct 9Serves a websiteMX recordsvalveserviceengine[.]com[.]auCombo, Oct 7No site or mail when checkedvalvesecured[.]comCombo, Oct 6Serves a websitevalveservice[.]caCombo, Oct 4Serves a websitevalveonline[.]irCombo, Sep 27Serves a website
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Valve. Domains listed resemble Valve 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.