WeChat lookalike domains

What kind of lookalikes

Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: app (3).

Lookalikes per week

Endings

The 8 most used of the 27 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.

Where they are registered

For the 80 with a registrar in WHOIS (65% 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

13 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 3 (23%) served a website and 5 (38%) 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 2 live ones checked against it.

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

• weclat[.]com
  Typo, Oct 10Not checked
• wechatappapi[.]com
  Combo, Oct 5No site or mail when checked
• aechat[.]com
  Typo, Oct 1Not checked
• wechatapp[.]cc
  Combo, Sep 22Not checked
• wechatweb[.]online
  Combo, Sep 17Not checked
• wechat-app[.]vip
  Combo, Sep 6Serves a website
• wechatupdate[.]help
  Combo, Sep 2Not checked
• wechatl[.]com
  Typo, Aug 21Not checked
• wechat6[.]com
  Typo, Aug 20Not checked
• wechatu[.]com
  Typo, Aug 12Not 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