Identity federation · global domains

What is the split between cloud-managed and federated sign-in of domains worldwide?

94%

93.82% of domains worldwide are managed, measured across 437 domains on 2026-08-15. This is a composition measure, not a failure rate.

cloud-managed: 93.82%federated: 6.18%
cloud-managed · 93.82%federated · 6.18%
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Measured every Saturday since 2026-08-01 — 5 observations to date. Last measured 2026-08-15.

How this is measured

NameSpaceType from the same cached lookup. Denominator: domains with a tenant.

Passive measurement: a single DNS lookup, TLS handshake, or homepage GET per domain. Aggregate-only; no individual company is named. 95% Wilson confidence intervals. Population: domains sampled from the Common Crawl web graph, filtered to those that do email. Parked domains excluded. Snapshot: common-crawl-domain-stratified-c400-g2500-seed20260729.

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Why it matters

Federation is a design choice, not a defect, but it changes where the real security controls live — and it is the population for the next metric.

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