Lookalike domain report: May 25 to May 31, 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
293 typosquats, 525 combosquats and 51 homoglyphs; 814 first seen in certificate logs and 55 in zone files. The week before had 829. Most were on .com (524), .com.cn (41), .net (18), .info (17).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | 64 | 7.4% |
| Crypto.com | 38 | 4.4% |
| Apple | 26 | 3.0% |
| 23 | 2.6% | |
| Microsoft | 23 | 2.6% |
| Ledger | 21 | 2.4% |
| Amazon | 19 | 2.2% |
| Booking | 16 | 1.8% |
| Blockchain | 16 | 1.8% |
| Adobe | 14 | 1.6% |
Where they were registered
For the 564 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 | 128 | 22.7% | Retail |
| Above.com | 55 | 9.8% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 46 | 8.2% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 40 | 7.1% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 38 | 6.7% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 16 | 2.8% | Retail |
| NameBright | 15 | 2.7% | Retail |
| URL Solutions | 15 | 2.7% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 14 | 2.5% | Retail |
| Metaregistrar | 14 | 2.5% | 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.
manecheap[.]com, a homoglyph of Namecheap. A homoglyph first seen on 27 May.xn--avas-3xb[.]com, a homoglyph of Avast. A homoglyph first seen on 29 May.xn--fcebook-pwa[.]com, a homoglyph of Facebook. A homoglyph first seen on 28 May.xn--barclas-u9b[.]com, a homoglyph of Barclays. A homoglyph first seen on 25 May.xn--ggle-vqag[.]com, a homoglyph of Google. A homoglyph first seen on 31 May.xn--yutube-3wa[.]com, a homoglyph of YouTube. A homoglyph first seen on 31 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 25 to May 31, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W22.