Lookalike domain report: May 4 to May 10, 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
282 typosquats, 1,017 combosquats and 36 homoglyphs; 1,298 first seen in certificate logs and 37 in zone files. The week before had 1,111. Most were on .com (540), .com.cn (456), .de (20), .org (20).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | 468 | 35.1% |
| Target | 81 | 6.1% |
| 50 | 3.7% | |
| United Airlines | 38 | 2.8% |
| Blockchain | 31 | 2.3% |
| Crypto.com | 30 | 2.2% |
| Microsoft | 27 | 2.0% |
| Ledger | 21 | 1.6% |
| Apple | 20 | 1.5% |
| Booking | 18 | 1.3% |
Where they were registered
For the 602 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 | 182 | 30.2% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 53 | 8.8% | Retail |
| Name SRS | 41 | 6.8% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 29 | 4.8% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 23 | 3.8% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 23 | 3.8% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 20 | 3.3% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 18 | 3.0% | Retail |
| Gname | 16 | 2.7% | Retail |
| Amazon | 12 | 2.0% | 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.
gemnini[.]com, a homoglyph of Gemini. A homoglyph first seen on 10 May.xn--goog-8va3s[.]com, a homoglyph of Google. A homoglyph first seen on 4 May.xn--facebok-h0a[.]com, a homoglyph of Facebook. A homoglyph first seen on 7 May.xn--twtter-4va[.]com, a homoglyph of Twitter. A homoglyph first seen on 7 May.ricrosoft[.]com, a homoglyph of Microsoft. A homoglyph first seen on 6 May.xn--godadd-uza[.]com, a homoglyph of GoDaddy. A homoglyph first seen on 4 May.
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: May 4 to May 10, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W19.