Highscore 55 · flagged Saturday, October 17, 2026

sterling.agency

Appeared in the .agency zone on Saturday, October 17, 2026; by the end of that day the census found redirects elsewhere. Full domain report

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What matched

one-letter brand typo
matched: sterling≈starling
+28
brand name on a rarely-seen nameserver
matched: dccdns.com
+6
form on a brand-styled page
matched: has_form
+18
brand name redirects elsewhere
matched: domaincostclub.com
+8
Registrar
—
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
park1.dccdns.com, park2.dccdns.com, park3.dccdns.com, park4.dccdns.com
First-day state
redirects elsewhere
HTTP status
200
Page title
At-Cost Domain Pricing - Domain Cost Club
Has a form
yes
Brand echoed
starling

Model opinions

Second opinionlooks benignconfidence 90%· claude-opus-5-5

The domain uses Domain Cost Club's parking nameservers (park*.dccdns.com) and redirects to that registrar's own homepage with a sponsor referral tag, which is the default parked state. The login form is the registrar's genuine account login. 'Sterling' is a common dictionary word and surname, not a typo of Starling.

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

sterling.agency is a typosquat domain (sterling ≈ starling) using dedicated dccdns nameservers and redirecting to an unrelated domain registrar (domaincostclub.com). The domain name itself serves no legitimate purpose—it is purely a parking/redirect mechanism designed to funnel traffic, making it a classic brand-squat abuse campaign.

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 17, 2026

Screenshot of sterling.agency taken by the zone census on 2026-10-17

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