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Is .cooking safe? The state of .cooking domain security
.cooking is riskier than the internet average. Across 2,284 graded .cooking domains, 84.9% score an F — worse than the 78.3% global average — heavier on exposed domains than the web as a whole. 1.3% earn a B or better. Most .cooking domains can still be impersonated in email, but the ending shifts the odds, not your own domain's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
Of 2,284 graded .cooking domains, 84.9% earn an F — well above the 78.3% internet-wide average. Only 0.2% reach an A or A+ — the highest protection tier in the census.
How do .cooking domains score?
Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .cooking domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 1 | 0% |
| A | 3 | 0.1% |
| B | 25 | 1.1% |
| C | 115 | 5% |
| D | 200 | 8.8% |
| F | 1,940 | 84.9% |
Does .cooking make a domain secure?
No — and that's the most important thing to know. A domain's grade is decided by how it is configured (SPF, DMARC, HTTPS, DNS), not by its ending. Choosing .cooking doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .cooking domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.
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Frequently asked questions
Is .cooking safe?
On average, .cooking is riskier than the internet average: 84.9% of its 2,284 graded domains score an F as of 2026-08-16, against a 78.3% global average. Most domains on every ending are exposed — the ending shifts the odds, not your own domain's grade.
How secure are .cooking domains?
15.1% of .cooking domains score above an F and 1.3% earn a B or better. The rest fail the basic externally observable protections, most importantly enforced SPF and DMARC, so they can be impersonated in email.
Does choosing .cooking make my domain secure?
No. A domain's grade comes from how it is configured — SPF, DMARC, HTTPS, DNS — not from its ending. A well-configured domain earns an A on any ending; an unconfigured one sits at F on .cooking too.
What does "grade F" mean for a .cooking domain?
It fails the basic protections we can observe from outside — above all, it has no enforced SPF and DMARC, so its email can be forged and its customers targeted with convincing fakes.
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