Highscore 52 · flagged Monday, October 19, 2026

microsofts.buzz

Appeared in the .buzz zone on Monday, October 19, 2026; by the end of that day the census found server error. Full domain report

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What matched

brand in the name
matched: microsoft
+30
TLD with a high abuse rate
matched: buzz
+8
brand name at a retail registrar
matched: Gname.com Pte. Ltd.
+8
brand name at a watch-list registrar
matched: Gname.com Pte. Ltd.
+6
Registrar
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
a8.share-dns.com, b8.share-dns.net
First-day state
server error
HTTP status
503
Page title
—
Has a form
no
Brand echoed
microsoft

Model opinions

Second opinionlooks like abusetarget: Microsoftconfidence 77%· claude-opus-5-5

microsofts.buzz is a brand-squat on a cheap TLD via a retail registrar, serving a mirrored copy of the Microsoft Research Asia (微软亚洲研究院) page with 148+ links back to www.microsoft.com. No credential or payment form is present (only search forms posting to microsoft.com), so this is a deceptive clone or squat rather than an active phish.

First passlooks like phishingtarget: Microsoftconfidence 92%· claude-haiku-4-5

The domain microsofts.buzz impersonates Microsoft by using the Microsoft logo, branding, and Chinese-language layout mimicking a legitimate Microsoft research institute site (微软亚洲研究院 - Microsoft Asia Research). The typosquat domain name combined with hosting on a watch-list registrar, the replica of Microsoft's official branding and navigation structure, and the 503 error (typical of infrastructure hastily set up for phishing) all indicate this is a credential-harvesting or data-collection imper

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 Monday, October 19, 2026

Screenshot of microsofts.buzz taken by the zone census on 2026-10-19

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