Email security in Canada
How Canada protects its email, measured from public DNS across 2,881,678 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.
Average score across 2,881,678 domains
Active. 1,464,744 with live mail routing.
Inactive. 1,416,934 with no mail routing found.
An inactive domain is not receiving email, yet it stays registered and can still be forged in your name. Securing it costs nothing and closes that door. 38,943 of them already declare that they carry no mail. How we measure this
How these domains spread across score bands
Where Canada stands
Across the 2,881,678 domains we benchmark in Canada, the average email-security score is 15 out of 100, a little above the global average of 13. That leaves the typical domain here open to being impersonated.
The headline covers every registered domain. Domains that carry live mail score 23, while those with no mail routing score 7. Both matter, because a domain does not need working email to be forged in your name.
Reading this page
- The big number is every registered domain in Canada.
- Active and inactive split that same population by whether mail is flowing.
- The coloured bar shows how those domains spread from band A down to band F.
Industries in Canada
Which sectors lift the national average, and which pull it down.
| # | Industry | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transport & Logistics | 3,415 | 33 /100 |
| 2 | Manufacturing & Engineering | 11,665 | 33 /100 |
| 3 | Financial Services | 6,674 | 33 /100 |
| 4 | Charities | 3,646 | 31 /100 |
| 5 | Construction, Property & Infrastructure | 12,373 | 31 /100 |
| 6 | Membership Organisations | 1,526 | 31 /100 |
| 7 | Agriculture & Environmental Services | 8,035 | 30 /100 |
| 8 | Healthcare & Life Sciences | 5,294 | 30 /100 |
| 9 | Education & Training | 5,647 | 29 /100 |
| 10 | Personal & Local Services | 3,383 | 29 /100 |
| 11 | Technology & Communications | 18,262 | 29 /100 |
| 12 | Retail & Consumer Brands | 9,710 | 29 /100 |
| 13 | Professional Services | 11,601 | 29 /100 |
| 14 | Government & Public Services | 3,432 | 28 /100 |
| 15 | Hospitality, Travel & Leisure | 7,250 | 26 /100 |
Canada within North America
How Canada compares with the rest of the region. The map and the table both follow the view selected above.
| # | Country | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands Antilles | 74 | 33 /100 |
| 2 | Caribbean Netherlands | 21 | 30 /100 |
| 3 | Nicaragua | 2,573 | 27 /100 |
| 4 | Curaçao | 807 | 25 /100 |
| 5 | Aruba | 599 | 25 /100 |
| 6 | El Salvador | 6,151 | 25 /100 |
| 7 | Costa Rica | 12,718 | 24 /100 |
| 8 | British Virgin Islands | 175 | 24 /100 |
| 9 | Panama | 8,141 | 23 /100 |
| 10 | Guatemala | 17,993 | 23 /100 |
| 11 | Dominica | 362 | 23 /100 |
| 12 | Bermuda | 2,663 | 22 /100 |
| 13 | Cayman Islands | 5,904 | 22 /100 |
| 14 | Jamaica | 1,776 | 22 /100 |
| 15 | Puerto Rico | 2,748 | 22 /100 |
| 16 | Martinique | 408 | 20 /100 |
| 17 | Mexico | 794,364 | 19 /100 |
| 18 | United States | 2,664,813 | 19 /100 |
| 19 | Greenland | 4,353 | 19 /100 |
| 20 | Barbados | 894 | 19 /100 |
| 21 | Bahamas | 1,051 | 19 /100 |
| 22 | Dominican Republic | 24,958 | 18 /100 |
| 23 | Honduras | 5,890 | 18 /100 |
| 24 | Guadeloupe | 1,526 | 17 /100 |
| 25 | Canada (this country) | 2,881,678 | 15 /100 |
| 26 | Cuba | 2,544 | 14 /100 |
| 27 | Montserrat | 7,703 | 14 /100 |
| 28 | Saint Vincent And The Grenadines | 32,490 | 13 /100 |
| 29 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 374 | 13 /100 |
| 30 | Haiti | 2,543 | 12 /100 |
| 31 | Trinidad And Tobago | 3,760 | 11 /100 |
| 32 | Saint Lucia | 3,623 | 11 /100 |
| 33 | Belize | 23,139 | 10 /100 |
| 34 | Turks And Caicos Islands | 4,632 | 8 /100 |
| 35 | Grenada | 9,375 | 3 /100 |
Compare with
United States →
Avg 19/100
Mexico →
Avg 19/100
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines →
Avg 13/100
All countries →
The full national picture.
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