warnermusiccanadastore.shop presented itself as a Warner Music storefront, with the page title "home | Warner Music" and a domain name pointing at a Canadian merchandise shop. Warner Music Canada operates official channels, and nothing here connects this .shop domain to the label. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-09-15 and added it to our blocklist. It has been offline since 2026-09-24, and on 2026-10-19 its DNS was still inactive.
How the scam works
The site borrowed a major record label's name and a store-style address, a pattern built to win the trust of fans looking for vinyl, CDs or artist merchandise. On a lookalike shop, the realistic risks are paying for goods that never arrive and handing card details, addresses or account passwords to an unrelated operator. We have not confirmed which of these this site carried out, but brand impersonation on a throwaway shopping domain is the reason it is on our blocklist.
Evidence
Independent detection was weak. On 2026-09-23 none of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain, and PhishDestroy is the only blocklist listing it. Three AlienVault OTX threat pulses reference it, which shows that other researchers tracked it as part of wider activity. Readers should know that the case rests largely on the brand mismatch and our own listing, not on broad vendor consensus.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-07-25, about seven weeks before we detected it. It was hosted on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in Georgia, a long way from the Canadian audience its name targets. It used a free, automatically issued Let's Encrypt certificate, so the padlock in the browser said nothing about who ran the store. It stopped resolving roughly nine days after we first saw it, a short lifespan typical of disposable domains.
What to do
If you bought anything from this site, contact your card issuer or bank, report the charge as fraudulent and ask about a chargeback. Do not wait for an order to ship. If you created an account, change that password everywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication, and treat any emails claiming to be order or shipping updates as suspect. Buy Warner Music merchandise only through the label's or artists' verified stores. Defenders should block the domain and its hosting IP, and watch for new Warner Music store lookalikes on cheap TLDs, because offline domains are often replaced with fresh ones.
For this gTLD, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
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Certificate fingerprintdb22107fe8399dd609e440cdf4f7792a1ba2da1c851a52d525da1ffb525792d0Certificate names · 1 SANs
warnermusiccanadastore.shop
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 非アクティブreason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation不明Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-21 01:16:37 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-23 10:01:39 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-23 10:01:39 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 174.22hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-27 01:08:17 UTC · precision low · basis bounded
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
使用技術 · 1 identified
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HTTP/3
Miscellaneous
HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
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