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What percent of SPF records end in ~all (soft fail)?
As of July 28, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-28
As of July 28, 2026, 55.9% of the 141,270,856 SPF records in the Defaults.Exposed census end in ~all (soft fail) — 79,033,658 domains asking receivers to merely flag, not reject, unauthorized senders.
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Statistic current as of July 28, 2026. Recomputed from the live census each edition; the number on this page and the machine-readable twin always match. Please cite Defaults.Exposed and link this page.
Defaults.Exposed, "What percent of SPF records end in ~all (soft fail)?" (as of July 28, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/what-percent-of-spf-records-use-soft-fail
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Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.