B
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69.6%
69.6% -- share of domains without enforced dmarc policy for global email domains (2026-02)
As of February 2026, 69.6% of domains globally remain vulnerable to email fraud due to not having an enforced DMARC policy.
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Value
69.6%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026-02
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
DMARC Guard
Primary
Tier B
https://ecommerceboost.io/uncategorized/email-authentication-spf-dkim-dmarc/ ↗
Source Article
Boost Deliverability: Email Authentication SPF DKIM DMARC
You sent a campaign that should have worked. The offer was good, the creative was clean, and the segment made sense. Then revenue came in soft, customer replies slowed down, and your team started asking the same question every ecommerce brand asks at some point: why are these emails going to spam?
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DMARC Guard
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Methodology
DMARC Guard email authentication research; measured after bulk sender authentication rules took effect in 2024
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Industrymarketing
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global email domains: 69.6% share of domains without enforced dmarc policy. Source: DMARC Guard (2026-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/domains-vulnerable-email-fraud-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/domains-vulnerable-email-fraud-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>69.6%</strong> -- share of domains without enforced dmarc policy for global email domains<br><small>Source: DMARC Guard (2026-02) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/domains-vulnerable-email-fraud-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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