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Where your domain's score sits inside your TLD
A grade on its own tells you very little. C sounds middling, and it puts a domain ahead of most of the internet. Pick your top-level domain, put in the score the scan gave you, and this places you inside the population the census measured.
Of the 332,492,319 domains carrying a grade in the October 2026 census, 74.3% grade F. The spread between registries is wide: .nl grades 41.4% F across 4,055,303 domains, while .net grades 80.3% across 11,192,636. Which registry you registered in moves the comparison more than most people expect.
The census publishes a grade distribution for each top-level domain and not a score distribution, so the answer below is a range rather than one number. Everyone in a lower band is beneath you, everyone in a higher band is above you, and the domains sharing your own band cannot be separated from you with what is published.
The free scan gives you the score. If you do not have one yet, run it below and come back with the number.
The six cut-offs
The scorer produces a whole number from 0 to 100 and reads it against six fixed cut-offs. They have not moved since the grading started, so a B on one domain means the same as a B on another.
| Grade | Score | Domains, all TLDs |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 95 to 100 | 87,562 |
| A | 90 to 94 | 613,481 |
| B | 80 to 89 | 7,227,347 |
| C | 70 to 79 | 25,913,239 |
| D | 60 to 69 | 51,583,703 |
| F | 0 to 59 | 247,066,987 |
Which registries this covers
The October 2026 census reached 1,434 top-level domains and 520 of them are large enough to publish a share for. The smallest one in the list carries 5,004 graded domains. A percentile drawn from a registry with a few hundred domains in it moves with a handful of registrations, so those registries are left out rather than given a number that reads as solid and is not.
Inside the F band, across every TLD
F covers everything below 60, which is a wide band holding most of the internet, so the letter stops being useful once you are in it. This is where the 247,066,987 F-graded domains sit. It is an all-TLD count and the census does not publish the same breakdown per registry, so read it as the shape of the band rather than as your own registry's shape.
| Score | Domains | Share of F |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 8,432,224 | 3.41% |
| 10 to 19 | 41,754,553 | 16.90% |
| 20 to 29 | 14,548,952 | 5.89% |
| 30 to 39 | 26,957,755 | 10.91% |
| 40 to 49 | 68,625,366 | 27.78% |
| 50 to 59 | 86,748,137 | 35.11% |
No F-graded domain in this edition scores 60 or above. For a domain with a website and mail the heaviest check weighs 8 points, so one record can lift a score of 52 or more out of F into D at 60, and no single record carries a domain in the 50s over the C threshold at 70. Getting to a C takes three records rather than one.
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Figures from the defaults.exposed census, data as of 12 October 2026. Census numbers move every month; the current values are on the census data page.