Lookalike domain report: March 16 to March 22, 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.
- 2 certificates for unregistered .com.ph, .ws 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
1,539 typosquats, 2,915 combosquats and 158 homoglyphs; 4,548 first seen in certificate logs and 64 in zone files. The week before had 5,412. Most were on .com (2,314), .hl.cn (540), .com.cn (365), .net.cn (196).
Most imitated brands
Where they were registered
For the 2,561 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 319 | 12.5% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 283 | 11.1% | Retail |
| Above.com | 157 | 6.1% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 150 | 5.9% | Retail |
| NameBright | 117 | 4.6% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 110 | 4.3% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 96 | 3.8% | Retail |
| PDR | 73 | 2.9% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 62 | 2.4% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 59 | 2.3% | 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.
m1crosoft[.]com, a homoglyph of Microsoft. A homoglyph first seen on 22 Mar.orade[.]com, a homoglyph of Oracle. A homoglyph first seen on 17 Mar.surveymomkey[.]com, a homoglyph of SurveyMonkey. A homoglyph first seen on 16 Mar.urlty[.]com, a homoglyph of Unity. A homoglyph first seen on 16 Mar.ronday[.]com, a homoglyph of Monday. A homoglyph first seen on 18 Mar.n0rton[.]com, a homoglyph of Norton. A homoglyph first seen on 17 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 16 to March 22, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W12.