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Look-alike domain

Definition

A domain made from your firm’s name, one character off or with another ending, registered by someone else.

In plain words

Swapped letters, an added hyphen or a different ending make an address that looks like yours at a glance. Your own DMARC record does not stop it, because it is a different domain.

Why it matters to a firm

A look-alike set up for email with no website is a common start of a forged invoice. We never say who owns one or what it is for; we show the public record and ask one question: is it yours?

The check behind the finding

Type two or three misspellings of your domain into a domain registration search and see which are taken.

The outside watch for your firm: see what is open before anyone else does, with the proof for the lead finding. Check my firm →