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Is .social safe? The state of .social domain security
.social is about average for the internet. Across 47,730 graded .social domains, 79.2% score an F — roughly in line with the 78.3% global average. 2.9% earn a B or better. Most .social 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 41,884 graded .social domains, 79.1% earn an F — well above the 73.8% internet-wide average. Only 0.6% reach an A or A+ — the highest protection tier in the census.
How do .social domains score?
Aggregate grade distribution across all graded .social domains — we never publish an individual business's grade. As of 2026-08-16.
| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 68 | 0.1% |
| A | 183 | 0.4% |
| B | 1,152 | 2.4% |
| C | 3,741 | 7.8% |
| D | 4,770 | 10% |
| F | 37,816 | 79.2% |
Does .social 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 .social doesn't protect you, and a high-F-share ending doesn't doom you: a correctly configured .social domain earns an A while the crowd around it sits at F.
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Frequently asked questions
Is .social safe?
On average, .social is about average for the internet: 79.2% of its 47,730 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 .social domains?
20.8% of .social domains score above an F and 2.9% 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 .social 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 .social too.
What does "grade F" mean for a .social 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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