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34%

34% -- mta sts failure mode share missing a aaaa record for Top-1M MTA-STS deployments (2026)

Name: Mta Sts Failure Mode Share Missing A Aaaa Record Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-02

2026 · URIports

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34%

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Data Vintage

2026

Entity

Top-1M MTA-STS deployments

Geography

Global

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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

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URIports Primary Tier B

https://dmarcguard.io/blog/mta-sts-example/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

MTA-STS Example: Working Policy File & DNS Record [2026] | DMARCguard

MTA-STS Example: A Working Policy File and DNS Record (RFC 8461) MTA-STS adoption sits at 0.3% — 15,997 of 5,499,028 domains scanned by DMARCguard’s first-party study. The blocker is rarely the protocol; it is the absence of a copy-pasteable example. Below are two artefacts you can publish today for…

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URIports · Original study ↗

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Failure-mode quick reference sourced from URIports' top-1M survey

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Top-1M MTA-STS deployments: 34% mta sts failure mode share missing a aaaa record. Source: URIports (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mta-sts-missing-dns-record-failure-2026

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