KINETICDRAGNET
Situation Report SR·2026·0802 · PopSockets

Hackers are impersonating your brand.

On August 2, 2026, we read the public record for one question: who is standing on the PopSockets name. This is what we found. Take it one finding at a time.

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The scope
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domains are wearing your name.

We tested 197 close variations of popsockets.com. Twenty-five are registered. Four are your own defensive registrations. The other twenty-one belong to someone else.

What it means

Seven of them can email your customers as you.

These domains have live mail servers. That means each one can already send an "order confirmation," a "refund," or a "support" message from an address that looks like yours. This is the staging ground for a phishing run, not parked junk.

popockets.compopsckets.compopsickets.compopsockts.composockets.compopsockets.iopopsockets.online
Attribution

Four were built by one operator, in a single week.

These four were all registered at the same registrar, Dynadot, between July 1 and July 5, 2025, and every one carries the same live mail setup. That is not scattered squatting. It is one actor standing up a kit.

popsockts.com07-01popockets.com07-05popsckets.com07-05posockets.com07-05
Velocity

And the attack is accelerating.

Opportunistic typo-squats a decade ago. The coordinated cluster in mid-2025. A working storefront clone registered 27 days ago. The problem is not static. It compounds.

201320162019202220252026pop-sockets.com · 2013-09-20popsickets.com · 2016-01-25popsokets.com · 2016-10-19popsockts.com · 2025-07-01popockets.com · 2025-07-05popsckets.com · 2025-07-05posockets.com · 2025-07-05popsockets.io · 2025-12-05popsockets.site · 2026-07-07 4 in one week
Live abuse · 01

One is selling under your name, with your photos.

popsockets.site clone

popsockets.site

A live storefront titled "Popsockets," serving your own licensed product photography, the Netflix One Piece collaboration, to take orders under your name.

RegistrarHostinger operations, UAB
Registered2026-07-07 · 27 days ago
Abuse contactabuse@hostinger.com
UDRP postureStrong · identical mark + your imagery
Live abuse · 02

One quietly sells your mistyped traffic.

popsokets.com

A single dropped letter. It runs a signed JavaScript redirect that hands your mistyping customers to rotating third-party landing pages. A monetization network trading on your traffic, live and dated.

RegistrarMedia Elite Holdings Limited
Registered2016-10-19
UDRP postureStrong · confusingly similar + bad-faith commercial use
REDIRECT CHAIN popsokets.com
 → window.location.replace()
   ?ch=1&js=<signed JWT>&sid=<uuid>
  → rotating third-party lander
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Kinetic Partners · Dragnet  ·  partners@kineticpartners.org
Open-source intelligence only · provenance on every claim · detect and route to counsel · no takedown warranty · prepared for PopSockets · 2026·08·02