Mediumscore 38 · flagged Sunday, November 1, 2026

arduinochips.shop

Appeared in the .shop zone on Sunday, November 1, 2026; by the end of that day the census found redirects elsewhere. Full domain report

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What matched

brand in page title, not in the name
matched: google
+20
form on a brand-styled page
matched: has_form
+18
Registrar
—
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
ndns1.cosmotown.com, ndns2.cosmotown.com
First-day state
redirects elsewhere
HTTP status
200
Page title
Google
Has a form
yes
Brand echoed
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Model opinions

Second opinionlooks like abusetarget: Arduinoconfidence 55%· claude-opus-5-5

The name is built on the distinctive Arduino brand under a .shop TLD on budget Cosmotown nameservers, and it serves no content of its own. It simply redirects to google.com, a common cloaking or placeholder pattern for brand-squat shop domains. The Google branding and form belong to the redirect destination and are not impersonation.

First passlooks like abuseconfidence 95%· claude-haiku-4-5

The domain arduinochips.shop is a brand-squat (Arduino + chips + .shop TLD) with no legitimate connection to Arduino or semiconductors. It redirects to Google's homepage, a classic abuse pattern used to monetize typosquats or deceive visitors expecting Arduino-related content. The nameservers (cosmotown.com) and redirect infrastructure suggest this is a parked/monetized squat rather than legitimate forwarding.

A model looked at the screenshot and page text and wrote what it thought. It can be wrong, and it is not a finding.

Same data as JSON: /api/zone/domain/arduinochips.shop. This page is not indexed by search engines and does not link to the site it describes.