Email security in Costa Rica
How Costa Rica protects its email, measured from public DNS across 12,718 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.
Average score across 12,718 domains
Active. 8,662 with live mail routing.
Inactive. 4,056 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. 99 of them already declare that they carry no mail. How we measure this
How these domains spread across score bands
Where Costa Rica stands
Across the 12,718 domains we benchmark in Costa Rica, the average email-security score is 24 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 32, while those with no mail routing score 9. 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 Costa Rica.
- 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 Costa Rica
Which sectors lift the national average, and which pull it down.
| # | Industry | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Services | 84 | 40 /100 |
| 2 | Healthcare & Life Sciences | 61 | 35 /100 |
| 3 | Charities | 31 | 35 /100 |
| 4 | Personal & Local Services | 41 | 35 /100 |
| 5 | Manufacturing & Engineering | 107 | 35 /100 |
| 6 | Agriculture & Environmental Services | 82 | 34 /100 |
| 7 | Transport & Logistics | 41 | 33 /100 |
| 8 | Technology & Communications | 380 | 32 /100 |
| 9 | Membership Organisations | 21 | 30 /100 |
| 10 | Retail & Consumer Brands | 114 | 30 /100 |
| 11 | Professional Services | 256 | 28 /100 |
| 12 | Construction, Property & Infrastructure | 166 | 27 /100 |
| 13 | Government & Public Services | 596 | 26 /100 |
| 14 | Media, Marketing & Creative | 268 | 25 /100 |
| 15 | Hospitality, Travel & Leisure | 109 | 23 /100 |
Costa Rica within North America
How Costa Rica 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 (this country) | 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 | 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
Canada →
Avg 15/100
United States →
Avg 19/100
Mexico →
Avg 19/100
All countries →
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