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Is .help safe? The state of .help domain security
.help is safer than the internet average. Across 172,773 graded .help domains, 55.4% score an F — cleaner than the 78.3% global average — better company than most of the web. 1% earn a B or better. Most .help 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 172,923 graded .help domains, 44.4% earn an F — well below the 73.8% internet-wide average. DMARC enforcement here stands at 5.9% — below the 11.8% census-wide rate.
How do .help domains score?
Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .help domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 6 | 0% |
| A | 222 | 0.1% |
| B | 1,575 | 0.9% |
| C | 52,670 | 30.5% |
| D | 22,661 | 13.1% |
| F | 95,639 | 55.4% |
Does .help 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 .help doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .help domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.
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Frequently asked questions
Is .help safe?
On average, .help is safer than the internet average: 55.4% of its 172,773 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 .help domains?
44.6% of .help domains score above an F and 1% 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 .help 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 .help too.
What does "grade F" mean for a .help 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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