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Email security in Germany

How Germany protects its email, measured from public DNS across 11,972,434 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.

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18 /100

Average score across 11,972,434 domains

23/100

Active. 8,643,233 with live mail routing.

4/100

Inactive. 3,329,201 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. 206,649 of them already declare that they carry no mail. How we measure this

How these domains spread across score bands

A 0% B 1% C 7% D 14% E 17% F 62%

Where Germany stands

Across the 11,972,434 domains we benchmark in Germany, the average email-security score is 18 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 4. Both matter, because a domain does not need working email to be forged in your name.

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The big number is every registered domain in Germany.
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 Germany

Which sectors lift the national average, and which pull it down.

#	Industry	Domains	Score
1	Manufacturing & Engineering	14,033	32 /100
2	Technology & Communications	17,494	32 /100
3	Transport & Logistics	2,510	31 /100
4	Agriculture & Environmental Services	3,656	31 /100
5	Financial Services	3,621	31 /100
6	Charities	544	30 /100
7	Retail & Consumer Brands	7,042	30 /100
8	Personal & Local Services	1,149	30 /100
9	Membership Organisations	1,315	29 /100
10	Construction, Property & Infrastructure	6,053	29 /100
11	Healthcare & Life Sciences	4,887	29 /100
12	Professional Services	10,015	29 /100
13	Government & Public Services	1,692	28 /100
14	Education & Training	4,428	27 /100
15	Media, Marketing & Creative	15,105	27 /100

Germany within Europe

How Germany compares with the rest of the region. The map and the table both follow the view selected above.

#	Country	Domains	Score
1	Guernsey	184	31 /100
2	Kosovo	53	30 /100
3	Macedonia	749	28 /100
4	Montenegro	226	27 /100
5	Netherlands	3,939,874	27 /100
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33,504	26 /100
7	Switzerland	2,789,610	25 /100
8	Poland	2,399,311	24 /100
9	Gibraltar	1,719	24 /100
10	Croatia	139,487	23 /100
11	Greece	469,874	23 /100
12	Slovakia	564,096	23 /100
13	Norway	617,600	22 /100
14	Romania	605,899	22 /100
15	North Macedonia	30,063	21 /100
16	Portugal	388,705	21 /100
17	Luxembourg	81,199	21 /100
18	Serbia	143,429	20 /100
19	Slovenia	164,103	20 /100
20	Denmark	956,548	20 /100
21	Malta	14,674	20 /100
22	Belgium	1,176,336	20 /100
23	Jersey	5,282	20 /100
24	Monaco	4,797	19 /100
25	Bulgaria	107,787	19 /100
26	France	5,123,142	19 /100
27	Spain	1,517,295	19 /100
28	Albania	36,806	19 /100
29	Germany (this country)	11,972,434	18 /100
30	Liechtenstein	76,264	18 /100
31	Austria	994,606	18 /100
32	Italy	2,818,331	17 /100
33	United Kingdom	7,448,985	17 /100
34	Faroe Islands	6,092	17 /100
35	Sweden	1,495,237	17 /100
36	Cyprus	34,327	17 /100
37	Ireland	246,156	17 /100
38	Hungary	811,492	17 /100
39	San Marino	1,436	16 /100
40	Estonia	223,821	16 /100
41	Latvia	114,511	16 /100
42	Czechia	1,363,812	15 /100
43	Moldova	49,801	15 /100
44	Finland	627,105	15 /100
45	Åland Islands	5,113	15 /100
46	Iceland	73,243	14 /100
47	Andorra	7,746	14 /100
48	Lithuania	194,667	13 /100
49	Belarus	145,191	12 /100
50	Ukraine	410,986	10 /100
51	Isle of Man	43,460	8 /100
52	Russia	1,736,676	8 /100

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