Lookalike domain report: August 24 to August 30, 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.
- 6,884 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
176 typosquats, 378 combosquats and 30 homoglyphs; 572 first seen in certificate logs and 12 in zone files. The week before had 546. Most were on .com (331), .net (27), .org (18), .online (12).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 104 | 17.8% |
| Apple | 44 | 7.5% |
| Freshworks | 33 | 5.7% |
| Meta | 23 | 3.9% |
| 17 | 2.9% | |
| Microsoft | 15 | 2.6% |
| Adobe | 15 | 2.6% |
| Crypto.com | 12 | 2.1% |
| PayPal | 11 | 1.9% |
| Netflix | 11 | 1.9% |
Where they were registered
Registrar data is incomplete for this week, so the registrar ranking is left out: WHOIS covers 11% 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--airfranc-i1a[.]com, a homoglyph of Air France. A homoglyph first seen on 25 Aug.micros0ft[.]com, a homoglyph of Microsoft. A homoglyph first seen on 30 Aug.amaz0m[.]com, a homoglyph of Amazon. A homoglyph first seen on 28 Aug.soundc1oud[.]com, a homoglyph of SoundCloud. A homoglyph first seen on 30 Aug.paypa1[.]com, a homoglyph of PayPal. A homoglyph first seen on 30 Aug.xn--drpbox-cxa[.]com, a homoglyph of Dropbox. A homoglyph first seen on 27 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 24 to August 30, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W35.