B
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62.7%
62.7% -- dmarc adoption rate for commercially-mailed domains (2026-08)
62.7% of commercially-mailed domains observed on commercial mailing lists publish a DMARC record.
- Sample is not a random sample of the DNS; it over-represents B2B and commercially-mailed domains.
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Value
62.7%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026-08
Entity
Sample Size
272,446
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Sources (2)
bouncezero.io
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Tier A
https://bouncezero.io/inbox-infrastructure-report-2026 ↗
Source Article
The Inbox Infrastructure Report 2026 - a 272,446-Domain Email Authentication Census | BounceZero Research
BounceZero Research - Flagship Report
What 272,446 domains reveal about the state of email authentication. Snapshot, August 2026 - every claim below is independently verifiable with dig
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By Ayoub Lebda, Founder
|August 2026
|Data: 2026-02-15 > 2026-08-05
Sample frame, stated plainly: these are doma…
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2026-09-18
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bouncezero.io
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Methodology
Census of domains observed on commercial mailing lists; DNS records checked via BounceZero verification platform
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commercially-mailed domains: 62.7% dmarc adoption rate. Source: bouncezero.io (2026-08). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/dmarc-adoption-2026
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