Highscore 55 · flagged Tuesday, October 20, 2026

shield-whatsapp.com

Appeared in the .com zone on Tuesday, October 20, 2026; by the end of that day the census found redirects elsewhere. Full domain report

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What matched

brand in the name
matched: whatsapp
+30
form on a brand-styled page
matched: has_form
+18
brand name redirects elsewhere
matched: yahoo.com
+8
Registrar
—
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
n1.xundns.com, n2.xundns.com
First-day state
redirects elsewhere
HTTP status
200
Page title
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Has a form
yes
Brand echoed
whatsapp

Model opinions

Second opinionlooks like abusetarget: WhatsAppconfidence 74%· claude-opus-5-5

The name is built on the distinctive WhatsApp brand plus 'shield', but the domain serves no content of its own. It runs on xundns.com nameservers and redirects visitors to an unrelated benign site (yahoo.com), a common cloaking pattern for a brand-squat held for later deception. The form and Yahoo branding belong to the destination, so there is no phishing page to judge yet.

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

Domain shield-whatsapp.com contains WhatsApp branding but redirects to www.yahoo.com with no legitimate connection to either brand. This is a typosquat/brand-squat using WhatsApp's name to attract visitors, then redirecting them elsewhere—a classic abuse pattern with no phishing credentials form on the attacker's own domain.

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 Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Screenshot of shield-whatsapp.com taken by the zone census on 2026-10-20

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