Mediumscore 38 · flagged Saturday, September 26, 2026

goveeillumination.shop

Appeared in the .shop zone on Saturday, September 26, 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: Goveeconfidence 72%· claude-opus-5-5

The name pairs the distinctive smart-lighting brand Govee with 'illumination' on a .shop TLD, a common fake-store squat pattern, and the domain is on budget Cosmotown nameservers. It serves no content of its own and simply redirects to google.com, a typical cloaking or not-yet-live placeholder, so the Google title and form belong to the destination and are not impersonation.

First passlooks like abuseconfidence 92%· claude-haiku-4-5

Domain 'goveeillumination.shop' is a brand-squat on Govee (smart home brand) using a .shop TLD and redirects to Google's homepage. The nameservers (cosmotown.com) are not Google's or Govee's; the redirect to an unrelated major site from a typosquat domain is a classic deceptive squat pattern designed to capture traffic or mislead visitors, even though the final destination is benign.

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/goveeillumination.shop. This page is not indexed by search engines and does not link to the site it describes.