Lookalike domain report: August 17 to August 23, 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.
- 4,385 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
100 typosquats, 431 combosquats and 15 homoglyphs; 537 first seen in certificate logs and 9 in zone files. The week before had 604. Most were on .com (220), .xyz (75), .online (24), .ca (11).
Most imitated brands
Where they were registered
Registrar data is incomplete for this week, so the registrar ranking is left out: WHOIS covers 8% 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.
xn--gge-snaa17b[.]com, a homoglyph of Google. A homoglyph first seen on 22 Aug.xn--pple-9sa[.]com, a homoglyph of Apple. A homoglyph first seen on 17 Aug.xn--micrsft-g5bb[.]com, a homoglyph of Microsoft. A homoglyph first seen on 20 Aug.abobe[.]com, a homoglyph of Adobe. A homoglyph first seen on 21 Aug.xn--gtlab-q81b[.]com, a homoglyph of GitLab. A homoglyph first seen on 17 Aug.stackoverfiovv[.]com, a homoglyph of Stack Overflow. A homoglyph first seen on 20 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 17 to August 23, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W34.