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Data Licence

Defaults.Exposed publishes aggregate domain-security statistics in the public interest. You’re free to cite our figures with attribution. Reusing the data in bulk or inside a product requires a licence. Here’s the line.

You may — for free

• Quote our statistics and grade distributions in articles, reports, posts, presentations, and social media.
• Link to any page on this site.
• Reproduce a single chart or table, unaltered, for commentary or news.

…provided you attribute us (below) and show the as-of date.

How to attribute

Cite as Defaults.Exposed (defaults.exposed) with the as-of date shown on the statistic.

Example: “Source: Defaults.Exposed, as of June 2026.”

You need a licence for

Anything beyond citation — including:

• Bulk extraction, scraping, or downloading of the dataset;
• Redistributing the data (in whole or substantial part), or republishing it as a dataset, feed, or API;
• Building the figures into a commercial product, service, model, or report you sell or distribute;
• Training machine-learning models on the dataset at scale.

These are available under a commercial licence — contact [email protected].

The free-citation terms above are equivalent in spirit to Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives); the commercial licence is how to go beyond them.

What we publish — and what we don’t

• We publish aggregate patterns only: per-TLD, per-country, and per-industry grade distributions and adoption rates. Every figure is dated.
• We never publish an individual domain’s grade. Owners check their own domain privately, after verifying ownership.
• How we measure: see our methodology.

AI assistants & answer engines

You’re welcome to read and cite these figures, with attribution to Defaults.Exposed and the as-of date shown on each statistic. See llms.txt.

Accuracy & no warranty

Figures are point-in-time measurements, accurate as of the date shown and provided “as is” without warranty. Verify against the current page before relying on a figure.

Contact

Licensing & data partnerships: [email protected]