costcowholesale.org
Appeared in the .org zone on Saturday, October 24, 2026; by the end of that day the census found registrar placeholder. Full domain report
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What matched
Model opinions
The name reproduces Costco's full trading name 'Costco Wholesale' on .org, registered through consumer-grade IONOS Germany DNS rather than a corporate brand-protection registrar. The page is only the stock IONOS 'Diese Domain ist bereits registriert' placeholder, and its form is IONOS's domain-search box, not a credential capture, so this is a content-less brand-squat rather than active phishing.
This is a legitimate IONOS hosting-provider placeholder page displayed when a domain is registered but not yet configured. The page clearly identifies itself as an IONOS domain-management interface, uses the IONOS logo and branding, and the form posts to IONOS's own infrastructure (mein.ionos.de). While the domain name contains 'costco', the page makes no attempt to impersonate Costco — it is transparently a registrar/host placeholder with no deceptive branding or credential-harvesting intent.
A model looked at the screenshot and page text and wrote what it thought. It can be wrong, and it is not a finding.
What the page looked like on Saturday, October 24, 2026
Same data as JSON: /api/zone/domain/costcowholesale.org. This page is not indexed by search engines and does not link to the site it describes.