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Is .football safe? The state of .football domain security
.football is riskier than the internet average. Across 6,314 graded .football domains, 85.5% score an F — worse than the 78.3% global average — heavier on exposed domains than the web as a whole. 1.2% earn a B or better. Most .football 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 5,554 graded .football domains, 85.1% earn an F — well above the 73.8% internet-wide average. Only 0.1% reach an A or A+ — the highest protection tier in the census.
How do .football domains score?
Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .football domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 1 | 0% |
| A | 4 | 0.1% |
| B | 72 | 1.1% |
| C | 294 | 4.7% |
| D | 545 | 8.6% |
| F | 5,398 | 85.5% |
Does .football 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 .football doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .football domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.
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Frequently asked questions
Is .football safe?
On average, .football is riskier than the internet average: 85.5% of its 6,314 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 .football domains?
14.5% of .football domains score above an F and 1.2% 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 .football 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 .football too.
What does "grade F" mean for a .football 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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