Zelle lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 64 domains that resemble Zelle since February 2026, 14 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (70%) are combosquats: Zelle spelled correctly with a word added, most often “online”, “support”. .com carries 75% of them, out of 11 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 7 in the last 30 days against 2 in the 30 before. 4 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .org.ph, .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: online (3), support (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 11 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 48 | 75.0% |
| .net | 4 | 6.3% |
| .org | 3 | 4.7% |
| .shop | 2 | 3.1% |
| .de | 1 | 1.6% |
| .help | 1 | 1.6% |
| .live | 1 | 1.6% |
| .me | 1 | 1.6% |
Where they are registered
For the 48 with a registrar in WHOIS (75% 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 | 10 | 20.8% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 9 | 18.8% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 6 | 12.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 3 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 3 | 6.3% | Retail |
| Alibaba Cloud | 2 | 4.2% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 2 | 4.2% | Retail |
| Atom.com Domains | 1 | 2.1% | Retail |
What the live ones do
12 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 4 (33%) served a website and 7 (58%) 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 3 live ones checked against it.
4 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 Zelle; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
officialzellepay[.]comCombo, Oct 12Serves a websiteMX recordszelleonlinepay[.]comCombo, Oct 10MX recordszellepayofficialhelpmail[.]comCombo, Oct 9MX recordszellesupportbusiness[.]comCombo, Oct 4MX recordszelle-payment-secure[.]comCombo, Sep 29Not checkedzellealert[.]comCombo, Sep 22Not checkedsecure-zellepay[.]comCombo, Sep 19Not checkedzelle-online[.]comCombo, Aug 25Not checkedzellesupport[.]helpCombo, Aug 15Not checkedzellepayonline[.]comCombo, Aug 10Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Zelle. Domains listed resemble Zelle 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.