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Original data · week of 2026-08-24 · current

253 suspicious rental domains this week

Weeks run Monday–Sunday, UTC. This page is the permanent record for the week of 2026-08-24 and is also served at the stable address bikoosh.com/fraud-report/latest. Aggregates only — patterns, not accusations; no domain is ever named.

Which patterns fired

Top-level domains of suspicious matches

Rental vocabulary in matched names

Methodology

Bikoosh monitors the public Certificate Transparency stream — the append-only log of all newly-issued HTTPS certificates. Each new domain name is tested against deterministic naming rules associated with rental fraud: rental vocabulary combined with destination city names, brand-lookalike patterns (typosquats, hyphen injection), and rental vocabulary on TLDs with high historical abuse rates. Matching is on names only; a name match is a statistical signal, not a verdict about any specific domain — which is why this report publishes only aggregates.

Cite this week

@misc{bikoosh_fraud_2026_08_24,
  title        = {Vacation Rental Fraud Report, week of 2026-08-24},
  author       = {{Bikoosh}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://bikoosh.com/fraud-report/2026-08-24}},
  note         = {Weekly aggregate counts of newly-certified domains matching
                  vacation-rental fraud naming patterns, from public Certificate
                  Transparency logs. Licensed CC BY 4.0.}
}

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