Lookalike domain report: September 7 to September 13, 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.
- 1,058 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
1,742 typosquats, 358 combosquats and 139 homoglyphs; 2,123 first seen in certificate logs and 116 in zone files. The week before had 557. Most were on .com (1,829), .de (79), .net (31), .org (27).
Most imitated brands
Where they were registered
For the 1,870 lookalikes with a registrar in WHOIS (95% of the week). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by the brands themselves.
| Registrar | Lookalikes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above.com | 285 | 15.2% | Retail |
| GoDaddy | 222 | 11.9% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 123 | 6.6% | Retail |
| Gransy | 100 | 5.3% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 99 | 5.3% | Retail |
| April Sea | 96 | 5.1% | Retail |
| PDR | 75 | 4.0% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 63 | 3.4% | Retail |
| Namecheap | 63 | 3.4% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 53 | 2.8% | Retail |
Age at first sighting
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.
nytinmes[.]com, a homoglyph of The New York Times. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Sep.mediun[.]com, a homoglyph of Medium. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Sep.daliymotion[.]com, a homoglyph of Dailymotion. A homoglyph first seen on 13 Sep.merrian-webster[.]com, a homoglyph of Merriam-Webster. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Sep.snugmug[.]com, a homoglyph of SmugMug. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Sep.morninngstar[.]com, a homoglyph of Morningstar, Inc.. A homoglyph first seen on 12 Sep.
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: September 7 to September 13, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W37.