VMware lookalike domains

What kind of lookalikes

Lookalikes per week

Endings

The 8 most used of the 8 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.

Where they are registered

For the 35 with a registrar in WHOIS (70% 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.

What the live ones do

1 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 VMware; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.

• vmwarehelpdesk[.]com
  Combo, Oct 8No site or mail when checked
• vpware[.]com
  Typo, Sep 18Not checked
• vrmware[.]com
  Homoglyph, Sep 5Not checked
• vmware-update[.]org
  Combo, Aug 26Not checked
• veware[.]com
  Typo, Jul 23Not checked
• vmmware[.]com
  Homoglyph, Jul 21Not checked
• mvware[.]com
  Typo, Jul 11Not checked
• vmware-support[.]com
  Combo, Jul 10Not checked
• vmware-service[.]de
  Combo, Jul 10Not checked
• vmwareservice[.]de
  Combo, Jul 10Not checked

Further reading

• What combosquatting is, with examples
• Homoglyph and punycode domains, explained
• How to find lookalike domains of your own company
• What to do about a lookalike domain
• The weekly lookalike domain report, across all monitored brands