Week 39, 2026

Lookalike domain report: September 21 to September 27, 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
4.1K
-9% on the week before
Brands imitated
806
most of all Lazada Group, 123
Publish MX records
27%
of 374 checked for a site and mail
Top retail registrar
GoDaddy
13.7% of those with WHOIS
  • Takedown tracking did not yet cover this week; it began on 24 September 2026.

Lookalikes per day

TyposquatCombosquatHomoglyph
21 Mon
618
22 Tue
628
23 Wed
715
24 Thu
529
25 Fri
663
26 Sat
537
27 Sun
405
New lookalikes of public brands per day (UTC), by type.

3,254 typosquats, 415 combosquats and 426 homoglyphs; 3,977 first seen in certificate logs and 118 in zone files. The week before had 4,519. Most were on .com (3,410), .com.ph (120), .de (64), .org (50).

Most imitated brands

BrandLookalikesShare
Lazada Group1233.0%
Home Depot962.3%
RingCentral912.2%
Staples Inc.721.8%
GameStop691.7%
Shutterstock611.5%
Lenovo581.4%
TripAdvisor501.2%
Priceline451.1%
LendingTree441.1%

Where they were registered

For the 3,036 lookalikes with a registrar in WHOIS (86% of the week). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by the brands themselves.

RegistrarLookalikesShareType
Corsearch60519.9%Brand protection
GoDaddy41713.7%Retail
NameBright2197.2%Retail
Dynadot1424.7%Retail
Cloudflare1374.5%Retail
Spaceship1083.6%Retail
Namecheap983.2%Retail
Cosmotown772.5%Retail
NameSilo652.1%Retail
Network Solutions602.0%Retail

Age at first sighting

Under 7 days
269
Under 30 days
8
Under a year
361
Older
2,388
No WHOIS date
509

What the live ones did

374 of this week's lookalikes were registered, resolved and checked for a website and mail: 164 (44%) served a website and 100 (27%) publish MX records, so they can receive email. Checks run on the higher-severity matches that resolve, not on every lookalike.

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.

  • google-maps-support[.]com, a combosquat of Google. Serves a website and publishes MX records.
  • instagram-recover[.]com, a combosquat of Instagram. Serves a website and publishes MX records.
  • find-my-icloud[.]pro, a combosquat of Apple. Serves a website and publishes MX records.
  • office-365-support[.]tech, a combosquat of Microsoft. Serves a website and publishes MX records.
  • vime0[.]com, a homoglyph of Vimeo. Serves a website and publishes MX records.
  • prime-play-online[.]shop, a combosquat of Amazon. Serves a website and publishes MX records.

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 21 to September 27, 2026", Sima Technologies LLC, https://greyphish.com/report/2026-W39.