WhatsApp lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 156 domains that resemble WhatsApp since February 2026, 47 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (74%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 96% of them, out of 8 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 36 in the last 30 days against 5 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 5 October 2026, with 16 new ones. 11 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: web (21).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 8 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 149 | 95.5% |
| .asia | 1 | 0.6% |
| .help | 1 | 0.6% |
| .icu | 1 | 0.6% |
| .in | 1 | 0.6% |
| .info | 1 | 0.6% |
| .net | 1 | 0.6% |
| .org | 1 | 0.6% |
Where they are registered
For the 137 with a registrar in WHOIS (88% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | 20 | 14.6% | Retail |
| Above.com | 14 | 10.2% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 13 | 9.5% | Retail |
| Guizhou Zhongyu Zhike Network Technology | 13 | 9.5% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 12 | 8.8% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 11 | 8.0% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 9 | 6.6% | Retail |
| GKG.Net | 3 | 2.2% | Retail |
What the live ones do
31 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 19 (61%) served a website and 5 (16%) 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 1 of the 30 live ones checked against it (3%).
32 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 WhatsApp; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
web-sdhjk-whatsapp[.]comCombo, Oct 14Serves a websiteh3-web-whatsapp[.]comCombo, Oct 12Not checkedwhatsappwebflow[.]inCombo, Oct 11No site or mail when checkedqrcode-web-whatsapp[.]comCombo, Oct 11Serves a websitewhatsappwebwi[.]icuCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteMX recordswhatsappinvoicegenerator[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteaccount-whatsapp[.]comCombo, Oct 10MX recordswhatsappwebb[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websiteMX recordswhatsappinvoice[.]comCombo, Oct 8No site or mail when checkedmywhatsapp[.]asiaCombo, Oct 8No site or mail when checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with WhatsApp. Domains listed resemble WhatsApp 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.