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 "segment": "gb-companies",
 "anchor": "company",
 "label": "UK companies",
 "population": "UK companies",
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 "quiet_failure_states": [
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 "measurement": "Tier 0. Resolve the MX, then PTR on the reversed address (bounded DNS query). Denominator: `has_mx`.",
 "why_it_matters": "Missing reverse DNS is a classic quiet failure — nothing breaks visibly, but receiving mail systems downgrade or reject on it, so outbound deliverability degrades in ways that surface as \"our email sometimes doesn't arrive\".",
 "limits": null,
 "data_tier": "smtp",
 "population_predicate": "has_mx",
 "entity_type": "domain",
 "kind": "failure",
 "latest": {
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  "n": 1450,
  "qf_pct": 4.83,
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   6.06
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  },
  "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per600-seed20260728"
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   "day": "2026-08-01",
   "n": 1245,
   "qf_pct": 4.58,
   "ci": [
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    5.89
   ],
   "dist": {
    "present": 95.42,
    "absent": 4.58
   },
   "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per300-seed20260728"
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-08-02",
   "n": 1248,
   "qf_pct": 4.65,
   "ci": [
    3.61,
    5.96
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   "dist": {
    "present": 95.35,
    "absent": 4.65
   },
   "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per300-seed20260728"
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-08-04",
   "n": 1456,
   "qf_pct": 4.88,
   "ci": [
    3.88,
    6.11
   ],
   "dist": {
    "present": 95.12,
    "absent": 4.88
   },
   "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per600-seed20260728"
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-08-05",
   "n": 1455,
   "qf_pct": 5.09,
   "ci": [
    4.07,
    6.34
   ],
   "dist": {
    "present": 94.91,
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   },
   "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per600-seed20260728"
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-08-07",
   "n": 1454,
   "qf_pct": 4.88,
   "ci": [
    3.89,
    6.11
   ],
   "dist": {
    "present": 95.12,
    "absent": 4.88
   },
   "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per600-seed20260728"
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-08-14",
   "n": 1450,
   "qf_pct": 4.83,
   "ci": [
    3.84,
    6.06
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   "dist": {
    "present": 95.17,
    "absent": 4.83
   },
   "snapshot": "uk-companies-house-per600-seed20260728"
  }
 ],
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "source": "https://quietfailures.com/datasets/mx-rdns/gb-companies"
}