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Is .legal safe? The state of .legal domain security
.legal is safer than the internet average. Across 22,803 graded .legal domains, 73.2% score an F — cleaner than the 78.3% global average — better company than most of the web. 2.6% earn a B or better. Most .legal 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 20,878 graded .legal domains, 68.6% earn an F — well below the 73.8% internet-wide average. DMARC enforcement here stands at 15.4% — above the 11.8% census-wide rate.
How do .legal domains score?
Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .legal domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 7 | 0% |
| A | 46 | 0.2% |
| B | 539 | 2.4% |
| C | 1,961 | 8.6% |
| D | 3,569 | 15.7% |
| F | 16,681 | 73.2% |
Does .legal 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 .legal doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .legal domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.
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Frequently asked questions
Is .legal safe?
On average, .legal is safer than the internet average: 73.2% of its 22,803 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 .legal domains?
26.8% of .legal domains score above an F and 2.6% 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 .legal 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 .legal too.
What does "grade F" mean for a .legal 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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