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Is .art safe? The state of .art domain security

.art is about average for the internet. Across 322,400 graded .art domains, 79.1% score an F — roughly in line with the 78.3% global average. 1.9% earn a B or better. Most .art 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 279,717 graded .art domains, 77.8% earn an F — above the 73.8% internet-wide average. Only 0.1% reach an A or A+ — the highest protection tier in the census.

How do .art domains score?

Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .art domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.

GradeDomainsShare
A+300%
A1630.1%
B6,0501.9%
C19,9246.2%
D41,08412.7%
F255,14979.1%

Does .art 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 .art doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .art domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.

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Frequently asked questions

Is .art safe?

On average, .art is about average for the internet: 79.1% of its 322,400 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 .art domains?

20.9% of .art domains score above an F and 1.9% 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 .art 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 .art too.

What does "grade F" mean for a .art 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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