State of DMARC

State of DMARC measures who publishes DMARC across the Tranco top million, who enforces it, and whose reporting address can receive anything. Editions are monthly, and the August 2026 edition is the first. This page always points at the newest one.

27.5%
of valid DMARC records send reports nowhere
46.9%
publish a valid DMARC record
20.8%
enforce without a weakening tag
34,506
send reports to an address that never opted in

Read the 2026-08 edition, or take the numbers as JSON.

Where does your domain land?

This check runs the same tier rules the scan applies to a million domains against yours. It reads live DNS and stores nothing.

Editions

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