Week 33, 2026

Lookalike domain report: August 10 to August 16, 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.

New lookalikes
604
+37% on the week before
Brands imitated
172
most of all Meta, 35
WHOIS coverage
10%
too little to rank registrars
  • 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.
  • 9,958 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

TyposquatCombosquatHomoglyph
10 Mon
93
11 Tue
78
12 Wed
103
13 Thu
86
14 Fri
67
15 Sat
92
16 Sun
85
New lookalikes of public brands per day (UTC), by type.

128 typosquats, 447 combosquats and 29 homoglyphs; 555 first seen in certificate logs and 49 in zone files. The week before had 441. Most were on .com (307), .xyz (26), .online (15), .org (13).

Most imitated brands

BrandLookalikesShare
Meta355.8%
Apple284.6%
Crypto.com223.6%
Microsoft213.5%
Booking183.0%
Google172.8%
Amazon162.6%
Walmart142.3%
Ledger122.0%
Adobe101.7%

Where they were registered

Registrar data is incomplete for this week, so the registrar ranking is left out: WHOIS covers 10% 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.

  • viiber[.]com, a homoglyph of Viber. A homoglyph first seen on 15 Aug.
  • nierosoft[.]com, a homoglyph of Microsoft. A homoglyph first seen on 14 Aug.
  • xn--titok-v5a[.]com, a homoglyph of TikTok. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Aug.
  • xn--amaon-wib[.]com, a homoglyph of Amazon. A homoglyph first seen on 10 Aug.
  • hulbspot[.]com, a homoglyph of HubSpot. A homoglyph first seen on 11 Aug.
  • xn--bcker-jua[.]com, a homoglyph of Docker. A homoglyph first seen on 10 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 10 to August 16, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W33.