Lookalike domain report: April 13 to April 19, 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.
Lookalikes per day
926 typosquats, 1,406 combosquats and 90 homoglyphs; 2,373 first seen in certificate logs and 49 in zone files. The week before had 2,444. Most were on .com (1,437), .com.cn (125), .org (62), .net (56).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | 198 | 8.2% |
| Microsoft | 95 | 3.9% |
| Crypto.com | 83 | 3.4% |
| Apple | 79 | 3.3% |
| 75 | 3.1% | |
| Ledger | 58 | 2.4% |
| Booking | 43 | 1.8% |
| Orange | 41 | 1.7% |
| Blockchain | 39 | 1.6% |
| Amazon | 37 | 1.5% |
Where they were registered
For the 1,609 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above.com | 216 | 13.4% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 184 | 11.4% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 99 | 6.2% | Retail |
| NameBright | 75 | 4.7% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 73 | 4.5% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 54 | 3.4% | Retail |
| Hosting Concepts | 52 | 3.2% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 46 | 2.9% | Retail |
| Squarespace | 46 | 2.9% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 39 | 2.4% | 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.
revolvt[.]com, a homoglyph of Revolut. A homoglyph first seen on 19 Apr.xn--blockcain-b85d[.]com, a homoglyph of Blockchain. A homoglyph first seen on 16 Apr.annthem[.]com, a homoglyph of Anthem. A homoglyph first seen on 17 Apr.sh1pt[.]com, a homoglyph of Shipt. A homoglyph first seen on 19 Apr.d1sc0rd[.]com, a homoglyph of Discord. A homoglyph first seen on 18 Apr.fortlnet[.]com, a homoglyph of Fortinet. A homoglyph first seen on 16 Apr.
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: April 13 to April 19, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W16.