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Is .be safe? The state of .be domain security — Belgium
.be is safer than the internet average. Across 1,457,760 graded .be domains, 63.2% score an F — cleaner than the 78.3% global average — better company than most of the web. 3.9% earn a B or better. Most .be domains can still be impersonated in email, but the ending shifts the odds, not your own domain's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
In the .be zone — covering Belgium — 50.4% of 941,963 graded domains earn an F, well below the 73.8% internet-wide average. DMARC enforcement here stands at 14.9% — above the 11.8% census-wide rate.
Note: .be is used as a proxy for Belgium based on the domain's TLD, not where the company is registered.
How do .be domains score?
Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .be domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 725 | 0% |
| A | 3,480 | 0.2% |
| B | 52,395 | 3.6% |
| C | 189,807 | 13% |
| D | 289,862 | 19.9% |
| F | 921,491 | 63.2% |
Does .be 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 .be doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .be domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.
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Frequently asked questions
Is .be safe?
On average, .be is safer than the internet average: 63.2% of its 1,457,760 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 .be domains?
36.8% of .be domains score above an F and 3.9% 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 .be 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 .be too.
What does "grade F" mean for a .be 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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