web-auth-whatsapp.com
Appeared in the .com zone on Tuesday, November 3, 2026; by the end of that day the census found redirects elsewhere. Full domain report
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The name pairs the distinctive WhatsApp brand with the lure word 'auth' (web-auth-whatsapp.com), which mimics WhatsApp Web login. The domain is on a Chinese retail registrar and xundns nameservers and has no content of its own: it redirects to baidu.com, a common cloaking pattern for staged phishing domains. No credential form is served yet, so this is a brand-squat rather than active phishing.
The domain web-auth-whatsapp.com is a typosquat combining 'auth' (lure word) and 'whatsapp' (brand name) with no legitimate purpose. It redirects to Baidu search results, not to WhatsApp or any authentication service, revealing the misdirection as a classic brand-squat redirect scheme rather than legitimate service.
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What the page looked like on Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Same data as JSON: /api/zone/domain/web-auth-whatsapp.com. This page is not indexed by search engines and does not link to the site it describes.