Lookalike domain report: August 31 to September 6, 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.
- 4,827 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
87 typosquats, 452 combosquats and 18 homoglyphs; 543 first seen in certificate logs and 14 in zone files. The week before had 584. Most were on .com (214), .xyz (29), .online (20), .org (20).
Most imitated brands
| Brand | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freshworks | 120 | 21.5% |
| Microsoft | 29 | 5.2% |
| Meta | 29 | 5.2% |
| Ledger | 26 | 4.7% |
| Amazon | 17 | 3.1% |
| Apple | 16 | 2.9% |
| 13 | 2.3% | |
| Signal | 13 | 2.3% |
| Oracle | 10 | 1.8% |
| Crypto.com | 10 | 1.8% |
Where they were registered
Registrar data is incomplete for this week, so the registrar ranking is left out: WHOIS covers 13% 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--googl-n0a[.]com, a homoglyph of Google. A homoglyph first seen on 31 Aug.xn--faceboo-jhb[.]com, a homoglyph of Facebook. A homoglyph first seen on 31 Aug.xn--gthub-n4a[.]com, a homoglyph of GitHub. A homoglyph first seen on 4 Sep.xn--aman-sqa32f[.]com, a homoglyph of Amazon. A homoglyph first seen on 31 Aug.diropbox[.]com, a homoglyph of Dropbox. A homoglyph first seen on 2 Sep.xn--opeai-tl1b[.]com, a homoglyph of OpenAI. A homoglyph first seen on 31 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 31 to September 6, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W36.