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Which TLD has the best security?
As of July 29, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-29
As of July 29, 2026, among TLDs with at least one million graded domains, .ch has the lowest security failure rate in the Defaults.Exposed census: 34.6% of its 1,428,565 graded domains score an F.
Restricted to TLDs with at least 1,000,000 graded domains so small registries cannot dominate the ranking.
| TLD | Domains graded | F rate |
|---|---|---|
| .ch | 1,428,565 | 34.6% |
| .pl | 1,704,767 | 36.0% |
| .nl | 3,083,223 | 36.9% |
| .it | 2,268,561 | 46.7% |
| .fr | 2,650,395 | 48.4% |
| .es | 1,149,346 | 55.6% |
| .za | 1,031,537 | 57.4% |
| .eu | 1,670,955 | 57.5% |
| .au | 2,557,649 | 60.4% |
| .jp | 1,107,471 | 60.4% |
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Statistic current as of July 29, 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, "Which TLD has the best security?" (as of July 29, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/which-tld-has-the-best-security
Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/which-tld-has-the-best-security · Machine-readable:safest-tld.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.