Email security of the top 1,000 domains
Week 2026-W40: 859 domains that handle mail, from the Tranco top 1,000.
83%
Publish DMARC
717 of 859
70%
Enforce DMARC
p=quarantine or p=reject
50%
SPF hard fail
SPF ending in -all
88%
Publish SPF
752 of 859
2%
MTA-STS enforce
14 more in testing
19%
BIMI
TLS-RPT: 5%
Grade distribution
- A 29%
- B 35%
- C 12%
- D 12%
- F 12%
All measured domains
Methodology
Every Monday we check each domain in the Tranco list 94GG2 (2026-10-02) top 1,000 using public DNS only. Domains that do not handle mail (no working MX and no SPF record) and shared-hosting suffixes such as github.io are excluded; "measured" counts the rest. Tranco: Le Pochat et al., "Tranco: A Research-Oriented Top Sites Ranking Hardened Against Manipulation", NDSS 2019.