Lookalike domain report: March 9 to March 15, 2026
Domains that imitate widely used brands, first seen in Certificate Transparency logs and ICANN zone files during this week: how many, which brands, where they were registered and what the live ones did. Free to cite with a link.
Published . A stored snapshot: these figures do not change. This week so far.
- Live and mail checks did not yet cover this week; they cover lookalikes first seen from 17 September 2026.
- Takedown tracking did not yet cover this week; it began on 24 September 2026.
- 5 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .ws, .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.
Lookalikes per day
2,587 typosquats, 2,536 combosquats and 289 homoglyphs; 5,383 first seen in certificate logs and 29 in zone files. The week before had 5,670. Most were on .com (3,552), .hl.cn (247), .com.cn (122), .net (98).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | 396 | 7.3% |
| Allstate | 291 | 5.4% |
| Apple | 148 | 2.7% |
| 144 | 2.7% | |
| Microsoft | 142 | 2.6% |
| Crypto.com | 111 | 2.1% |
| Charles Schwab | 104 | 1.9% |
| Booking | 88 | 1.6% |
| Adobe | 82 | 1.5% |
| United Airlines | 58 | 1.1% |
Where they were registered
For the 3,877 lookalikes with a registrar in WHOIS (100% of the week). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by the brands themselves.
| Registrar | Lookalikes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Elite Holdings | 762 | 19.7% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 696 | 17.9% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 265 | 6.8% | Retail |
| NameBright | 180 | 4.6% | Retail |
| Above.com | 155 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 116 | 3.0% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 97 | 2.5% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 97 | 2.5% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 92 | 2.4% | Retail |
| Internet Domain Service BS | 74 | 1.9% | Retail |
Age at first sighting
Examples
One per brand, written with [.] so they cannot be clicked. A lookalike resembles a brand; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
gitihub[.]com, a homoglyph of GitHub. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Mar.elsco[.]com, a homoglyph of Cisco. A homoglyph first seen on 9 Mar.walnart[.]com, a homoglyph of Walmart. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Mar.xn--bnance-bwa[.]com, a homoglyph of Binance. A homoglyph first seen on 14 Mar.epiegames[.]com, a homoglyph of Epic Games. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Mar.momday[.]com, a homoglyph of Monday. A homoglyph first seen on 10 Mar.
How this is counted
A week runs Monday to Sunday, UTC. Each domain is counted once, in the week Greyphish first saw it, and only for about 1,250 widely impersonated public brands: domains Greyphish customers watch, and anything derived from their watchlists, are excluded. The full method and caveats are on the live report.
Citing this week
Greyphish, "Lookalike domain report: March 9 to March 15, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W11.