Lookalike domain report: May 18 to May 24, 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
187 typosquats, 607 combosquats and 35 homoglyphs; 797 first seen in certificate logs and 32 in zone files. The week before had 1,241. Most were on .com (384), .com.cn (124), .co (26), .org (20).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | 130 | 15.7% |
| Crypto.com | 55 | 6.6% |
| Microsoft | 38 | 4.6% |
| 30 | 3.6% | |
| Amazon | 30 | 3.6% |
| Apple | 22 | 2.7% |
| Blockchain | 15 | 1.8% |
| Ledger | 15 | 1.8% |
| Adobe | 13 | 1.6% |
| TikTok | 12 | 1.4% |
Where they were registered
For the 434 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 | 149 | 34.3% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 26 | 6.0% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 26 | 6.0% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 26 | 6.0% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 23 | 5.3% | Retail |
| Name SRS | 19 | 4.4% | Retail |
| NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP | 14 | 3.2% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 12 | 2.8% | Retail |
| Hostinger | 7 | 1.6% | Retail |
| PDR | 7 | 1.6% | 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.
easyjct[.]com, a homoglyph of EasyJet. A homoglyph first seen on 24 May.xn--gooie-y1a[.]com, a homoglyph of Google. A homoglyph first seen on 18 May.xn--facebk-0xaa[.]com, a homoglyph of Facebook. A homoglyph first seen on 20 May.twlttcr[.]com, a homoglyph of Twitter. A homoglyph first seen on 18 May.xn--appl-jpa[.]com, a homoglyph of Apple. A homoglyph first seen on 20 May.xn--mcrosoft-21a[.]com, a homoglyph of Microsoft. A homoglyph first seen on 18 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 18 to May 24, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W21.