Email security in United Arab Emirates
How United Arab Emirates protects its email, measured from public DNS across 162,738 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.
Average score across 162,738 domains
Active. 120,828 with live mail routing.
Inactive. 41,910 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. 1,431 of them already declare that they carry no mail. How we measure this
How these domains spread across score bands
Where United Arab Emirates stands
Across the 162,738 domains we benchmark in United Arab Emirates, the average email-security score is 20 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 26, 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 United Arab Emirates.
- 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 United Arab Emirates
Which sectors lift the national average, and which pull it down.
| # | Industry | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Services | 765 | 33 /100 |
| 2 | Healthcare & Life Sciences | 455 | 32 /100 |
| 3 | Agriculture & Environmental Services | 729 | 30 /100 |
| 4 | Transport & Logistics | 703 | 30 /100 |
| 5 | Charities | 67 | 29 /100 |
| 6 | Personal & Local Services | 330 | 29 /100 |
| 7 | Manufacturing & Engineering | 1,387 | 29 /100 |
| 8 | Construction, Property & Infrastructure | 1,730 | 29 /100 |
| 9 | Technology & Communications | 2,210 | 28 /100 |
| 10 | Retail & Consumer Brands | 1,065 | 27 /100 |
| 11 | Professional Services | 1,531 | 27 /100 |
| 12 | Membership Organisations | 22 | 26 /100 |
| 13 | Hospitality, Travel & Leisure | 993 | 26 /100 |
| 14 | Media, Marketing & Creative | 1,820 | 25 /100 |
| 15 | Education & Training | 938 | 24 /100 |
United Arab Emirates within Asia
How United Arab Emirates compares with the rest of the region. The map and the table both follow the view selected above.
| # | Country | Domains | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afghanistan | 3,533 | 26 /100 |
| 2 | Brunei | 51 | 25 /100 |
| 3 | Kuwait | 3,376 | 25 /100 |
| 4 | Macau | 96 | 24 /100 |
| 5 | Lebanon | 4,379 | 24 /100 |
| 6 | Cambodia | 3,949 | 23 /100 |
| 7 | Palestine | 7,425 | 23 /100 |
| 8 | Jordan | 4,993 | 23 /100 |
| 9 | Oman | 5,615 | 23 /100 |
| 10 | Turkey | 563,653 | 22 /100 |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 64,264 | 22 /100 |
| 12 | Maldives | 4,816 | 22 /100 |
| 13 | Iraq | 7,755 | 21 /100 |
| 14 | Bahrain | 4,026 | 21 /100 |
| 15 | Azerbaijan | 34,402 | 21 /100 |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates (this country) | 162,738 | 20 /100 |
| 17 | Syria | 3,817 | 20 /100 |
| 18 | Singapore | 137,687 | 20 /100 |
| 19 | Sri Lanka | 53,526 | 19 /100 |
| 20 | Yemen | 729 | 18 /100 |
| 21 | Qatar | 15,064 | 18 /100 |
| 22 | Myanmar | 2,872 | 18 /100 |
| 23 | Pakistan | 134,908 | 18 /100 |
| 24 | Bangladesh | 46,534 | 17 /100 |
| 25 | Bhutan | 1,380 | 17 /100 |
| 26 | India | 2,929,638 | 16 /100 |
| 27 | Georgia | 45,818 | 16 /100 |
| 28 | Uzbekistan | 83,584 | 16 /100 |
| 29 | Israel | 214,574 | 15 /100 |
| 30 | Armenia | 39,599 | 15 /100 |
| 31 | Kazakhstan | 143,901 | 15 /100 |
| 32 | Hong Kong | 117,576 | 15 /100 |
| 33 | Kyrgyzstan | 19,971 | 14 /100 |
| 34 | Japan | 1,804,485 | 14 /100 |
| 35 | Indonesia | 808,169 | 14 /100 |
| 36 | Thailand | 108,093 | 14 /100 |
| 37 | Nepal | 80,330 | 13 /100 |
| 38 | Tajikistan | 5,527 | 13 /100 |
| 39 | Iran | 625,967 | 13 /100 |
| 40 | Turkmenistan | 2,370 | 13 /100 |
| 41 | Laos | 40,041 | 13 /100 |
| 42 | Mongolia | 22,506 | 13 /100 |
| 43 | Malaysia | 359,233 | 11 /100 |
| 44 | Taiwan | 317,154 | 10 /100 |
| 45 | Vietnam | 431,010 | 7 /100 |
| 46 | South Korea | 589,329 | 6 /100 |
| 47 | China | 5,092,645 | 1 /100 |
| 48 | Timor-Leste | 32,941 | 1 /100 |
| 49 | Philippines | 4,402,152 | 0 /100 |
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