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CAA record

Share of domains publishing no CAA record to restrict which certificate authorities may issue for them.

Measured every Tuesday · last updated

How it is measured

Tier 0. CAA records at the apex. Denominator: any.

Why it matters

Without CAA, any public CA may issue a certificate for the domain, so mis-issuance has no technical backstop. Cheap to publish, almost nobody does.

The base rate

Two independent populations. The global, domain-anchored figure is unbiased; the company-anchored figures are built by matching company names to domains and skew toward more digitally-mature firms. Both are published, so the gap is visible.

Global (all domains) 97.69% fail · n=14,893
present: 2.31%no record: 97.69%
France companies 97.45% fail · n=862
present: 2.55%no record: 97.45%
UK companies 97.62% fail · n=2,652
present: 2.38%no record: 97.62%
Norway companies 97.37% fail · n=990
present: 2.63%no record: 97.37%
present · 2.63%no record · 97.37%

By company size band

Company-anchored cuts (national registries with a size proxy), split by size band. Right-hand figure is the share not meeting the control.

France
micron=229
present: 2.18%no record: 97.82%
97.82%
smalln=253
present: 1.19%no record: 98.81%
98.81%
mediumn=200
present: 2%no record: 98%
98%
largen=180
present: 5.56%no record: 94.44%
94.44%
UK
micron=230
present: 1.3%no record: 98.7%
98.7%
smalln=961
present: 1.87%no record: 98.13%
98.13%
medium/largen=1061
present: 3.02%no record: 96.98%
96.98%
dormantn=194
present: 2.06%no record: 97.94%
97.94%
no-accountsn=206
present: 2.91%no record: 97.09%
97.09%
Norway
micron=278
present: 1.08%no record: 98.92%
98.92%
smalln=253
present: 0.4%no record: 99.6%
99.6%
mediumn=266
present: 4.51%no record: 95.49%
95.49%
largen=193
present: 5.18%no record: 94.82%
94.82%

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