Troubleshooting

The lookalike check found nothing

What an empty result means, why it always comes with a coverage count, how to widen the check, and when a known impostor does not show up.

Updated · 2 min read

"Nothing found" is a statement about coverage

The result always says how many variations were checked (100 on the public tool, 150 on Free, 250 on Starter, 750 on Pro, 2,000 on Enterprise). Nothing found means none of those candidates is registered, resolves, or appears in certificate logs. It does not mean nothing is out there.

Widen it

  • A bigger plan checks more candidates, in the order most likely to matter. A seven-character name has over a thousand plausible variations.
  • Add sister brands and product names as their own domains; each gets its own check.
  • Turn on the watch (Starter and up) so a candidate registered next month is caught by the weekly or daily re-check, and the daily new-registration feed catches names registered before they have DNS.

A known impostor is not listed

  • It is not a permutation of your name. A domain that merely contains your brand plus another word may be outside the algorithms' output; report it through Ask for help so the case can be looked at.
  • It has a verdict. A lookalike marked ours, unrelated or known is silenced or moved. Check the verdict list.
  • It scored benign. It predates your domain or shares your registrant, so the assessment ended early. The reasons are on the row.
  • The check ran without clearance. The homepage and favicon comparison, the signals that turn "looks like" into "is impersonating", only run when the account has proven ownership of your domain. Without them, a copied site is still listed but scored lower.

The variations do not include my TLD swap

TLD swaps are included for the common set. A country TLD not in the list is worth adding as a domain of its own so it is checked directly.

Still stuck?

Ask the people who run the scanner.

Send the domain and what you expected to see. We look at the same scan you are looking at and write back with what it means and what to change.