Email security in Hong Kong
How Hong Kong protects its email, measured from public DNS across 121,324 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.
Average score across 121,324 domains
Active. 70,004 with live mail routing.
Inactive. 51,320 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. 418 of them already declare that they carry no mail. How we measure this
How these domains spread across score bands
Where Hong Kong stands
Across the 121,324 domains we benchmark in Hong Kong, 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 22, while those with no mail routing score 4. 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 Hong Kong.
- 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 Hong Kong
Which sectors lift the national average, and which pull it down.
| # | Industry | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Government & Public Services | 924 | 34 /100 |
| 2 | Charities | 120 | 31 /100 |
| 3 | Membership Organisations | 52 | 28 /100 |
| 4 | Personal & Local Services | 103 | 28 /100 |
| 5 | Financial Services | 635 | 28 /100 |
| 6 | Construction, Property & Infrastructure | 358 | 27 /100 |
| 7 | Transport & Logistics | 261 | 27 /100 |
| 8 | Agriculture & Environmental Services | 140 | 27 /100 |
| 9 | Professional Services | 716 | 26 /100 |
| 10 | Technology & Communications | 975 | 26 /100 |
| 11 | Healthcare & Life Sciences | 142 | 26 /100 |
| 12 | Hospitality, Travel & Leisure | 315 | 25 /100 |
| 13 | Manufacturing & Engineering | 450 | 25 /100 |
| 14 | Retail & Consumer Brands | 808 | 24 /100 |
| 15 | Media, Marketing & Creative | 824 | 23 /100 |
Hong Kong within Asia
How Hong Kong compares with the rest of the region. The map and the table both follow the view selected above.
| # | Country | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afghanistan | 3,697 | 25 /100 |
| 2 | Brunei | 51 | 25 /100 |
| 3 | Kuwait | 3,390 | 25 /100 |
| 4 | Macau | 96 | 24 /100 |
| 5 | Cambodia | 3,979 | 24 /100 |
| 6 | Jordan | 5,104 | 23 /100 |
| 7 | Palestine | 7,742 | 23 /100 |
| 8 | Oman | 5,933 | 23 /100 |
| 9 | Turkey | 583,930 | 22 /100 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 5,336 | 22 /100 |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 66,106 | 22 /100 |
| 12 | Maldives | 5,015 | 21 /100 |
| 13 | Iraq | 7,899 | 21 /100 |
| 14 | Bahrain | 4,160 | 21 /100 |
| 15 | Syria | 3,998 | 20 /100 |
| 16 | Azerbaijan | 36,196 | 20 /100 |
| 17 | United Arab Emirates | 170,543 | 20 /100 |
| 18 | Singapore | 140,449 | 20 /100 |
| 19 | Yemen | 737 | 18 /100 |
| 20 | Qatar | 15,520 | 18 /100 |
| 21 | Myanmar | 2,932 | 18 /100 |
| 22 | Pakistan | 140,672 | 18 /100 |
| 23 | India | 3,047,968 | 16 /100 |
| 24 | Uzbekistan | 88,986 | 16 /100 |
| 25 | Georgia | 47,838 | 16 /100 |
| 26 | Israel | 214,947 | 15 /100 |
| 27 | Hong Kong (this country) | 121,324 | 15 /100 |
| 28 | Armenia | 43,886 | 14 /100 |
| 29 | Bangladesh | 63,295 | 14 /100 |
| 30 | Thailand | 108,555 | 14 /100 |
| 31 | Kyrgyzstan | 25,632 | 14 /100 |
| 32 | Japan | 1,945,906 | 13 /100 |
| 33 | Nepal | 82,908 | 13 /100 |
| 34 | Kazakhstan | 211,835 | 13 /100 |
| 35 | Tajikistan | 5,779 | 13 /100 |
| 36 | Laos | 42,373 | 12 /100 |
| 37 | Iran | 686,582 | 12 /100 |
| 38 | Mongolia | 24,024 | 12 /100 |
| 39 | Bhutan | 2,612 | 12 /100 |
| 40 | Malaysia | 384,184 | 11 /100 |
| 41 | Taiwan | 328,321 | 10 /100 |
| 42 | Indonesia | 1,435,478 | 9 /100 |
| 43 | Vietnam | 436,573 | 7 /100 |
| 44 | Sri Lanka | 195,103 | 6 /100 |
| 45 | South Korea | 611,507 | 6 /100 |
| 46 | Turkmenistan | 8,729 | 4 /100 |
| 47 | China | 5,881,740 | 1 /100 |
| 48 | Timor-Leste | 33,120 | 1 /100 |
| 49 | Philippines | 5,355,430 | 0 /100 |
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India →
Avg 16/100
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