Lookalike domain report: August 3 to August 9, 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.
- 9,422 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.ph, .net.ph 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
61 typosquats, 368 combosquats and 12 homoglyphs; 424 first seen in certificate logs and 17 in zone files. The week before had 672. Most were on .com (185), .xyz (19), .info (13), .net (12).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 36 | 8.2% |
| OpenAI | 24 | 5.4% |
| Crypto.com | 20 | 4.5% |
| Microsoft | 18 | 4.1% |
| Amazon | 16 | 3.6% |
| Meta | 16 | 3.6% |
| Ledger | 16 | 3.6% |
| Blockchain | 15 | 3.4% |
| 13 | 2.9% | |
| Booking | 8 | 1.8% |
Where they were registered
Registrar data is incomplete for this week, so the registrar ranking is left out: WHOIS covers 27% of its lookalikes.
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.
aubible[.]com, a homoglyph of Audible. A homoglyph first seen on 3 Aug.xn--fcbook-pta9d[.]com, a homoglyph of Facebook. A homoglyph first seen on 7 Aug.xn--instgram-k7a[.]com, a homoglyph of Instagram. A homoglyph first seen on 4 Aug.birance[.]com, a homoglyph of Binance. A homoglyph first seen on 3 Aug.xn--coibase-r13c[.]com, a homoglyph of Coinbase. A homoglyph first seen on 8 Aug.xn--rblox-m29a[.]com, a homoglyph of Roblox. A homoglyph first seen on 8 Aug.
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: August 3 to August 9, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W32.