SPF policy · Bulgaria (domains)

What share of domains in Bulgaria have no enforcing SPF record (absent, ~all soft-fail, or +all)?

88.37%

88.37% of domains in Bulgaria (95% CI 84.26–91.52%), measured across 301 domains on 2026-10-01.

-all (enforced): 11.63%~all (soft-fail): 76.74%?all / none: 3.99%+all: 0.33%no record: 7.31%
-all (enforced) · 11.63%~all (soft-fail) · 76.74%?all / none · 3.99%+all · 0.33%no record · 7.31%
Trend

Measured every Monday since 2026-08-01 — 12 observations to date. Last measured 2026-10-01.

How this is measured

Tier 0. TXT at the apex; find v=spf1, read the all qualifier, count direct lookups. Denominator: has_mx.

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

~all is the SPF equivalent of p=none and overwhelmingly the most common configuration — it asks receivers to accept-but-mark, so spoofed mail still arrives. +all authorises the entire internet to send as you. Exceeding the 10-lookup limit makes the record fail permanently and silently, because receivers abort evaluation.

Limits of this measurement

The lookup count is non-recursive (it does not expand include:), so it is a lower bound and catches only egregiously over-limit records.

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