Example reports

The platforms most “is my mail set up right” questions are about — each sender's own domain is the reference config its customers measure against.

• mailchimp.comGrade BenforcingThe marketing ESP whose setup guide millions have followed.
• sendgrid.comGrade BenforcingTransactional giant; domain authentication is its customers' daily support question.
• postmarkapp.comGrade BenforcingTransactional specialist known for deliverability rigor — read its own records closely.
• klaviyo.comGrade BenforcingE-commerce marketing sender; dedicated sending domains are its onboarding staple.
• brevo.comGrade AenforcingThe Sendinblue rebrand, with a huge EU small-business base debugging DNS.
• constantcontact.comGrade BenforcingLegacy SMB mailing giant with a long tail of setup questions.
• activecampaign.comGrade BenforcingMarketing automation whose authentication guides are pasted everywhere.
• mailgun.comGrade BenforcingDeveloper email API; domain verification is step one of every integration.
• amazonses.comGrade AenforcingAWS's raw sending pipe — the domain every SES tutorial builds on.
• customer.ioGrade BenforcingBehavioral messaging platform; sending-domain setup gates its onboarding.
• kit.comGrade BenforcingCreator newsletter platform, the successor name to ConvertKit.
• convertkit.comGrade Bmonitor-onlyThe original ConvertKit domain — rebrand-era configs reward comparison.
• beehiiv.comGrade BenforcingFast-growing newsletter platform sending at serious scale.
• substack.comGrade BenforcingThe newsletter platform whose headers land in millions of inboxes daily.
• mailerlite.comGrade AenforcingSMB newsletter tool with a large self-serve DNS-setup audience.
• resend.comGrade BenforcingThe developer-favorite email API; its own domain is its best documentation.

The companies that wrote the sender requirements — and their own domains' answers to them.

• google.comGrade BenforcingThe company that made DMARC a condition of bulk delivery in 2024.
• gmail.comGrade Bmonitor-onlyThe consumer domain of the requirements era's chief enforcer.
• outlook.comGrade Bmonitor-onlyMicrosoft's consumer mail domain, behind the 2025 requirements wave.
• microsoft.comGrade BenforcingRoutinely the most-imitated brand in phishing rankings.
• yahoo.comGrade BenforcingCo-author of the February 2024 bulk-sender requirements.
• icloud.comGrade BenforcingApple's mail domain; its postmaster rules quietly demand authentication too.
• zoho.comGrade AenforcingThe SMB workspace suite with an enormous setup-guide audience.
• protonmail.comGrade BenforcingThe privacy-first provider — how encryption specialists publish policy.

Products that send mail while their customers do business — the configs behind everyday notification mail.

• salesforce.comGrade BenforcingCRM mail at enormous scale; customers' sending-domain setup questions never stop.
• hubspot.comGrade BenforcingMarketing suite whose connected sending domains customers debug daily.
• zendesk.comGrade BenforcingSupport-desk mail, sent on behalf of thousands of customer brands.
• intercom.comGrade BenforcingCustomer-messaging mail with a sending domain per workspace.
• shopify.comGrade BenforcingStore notification mail for a meaningful share of e-commerce.
• atlassian.comGrade BenforcingJira and Confluence notifications flood corporate inboxes.
• slack.comGrade AenforcingWorkspace notification mail — compare with its owner Salesforce's config.
• github.comGrade BenforcingNotification mail every developer receives; the subdomain story rewards reading.
• docusign.comGrade AenforcingSignature-request phishing is a staple — which makes its real config instructive.
• stripe.comGrade BenforcingPayment mail that phishers love to imitate.
• zoom.usGrade BenforcingMeeting-invite phishing has impersonated it since 2020.

The names phishers wear most; what each domain's DNS tells receivers to do about it.

• paypal.comGrade BenforcingWhere DMARC began — the PayPal–Yahoo anti-phishing pilot became the standard itself.
• amazon.comGrade AenforcingRoutinely among phishing's most-imitated brands.
• apple.comGrade BenforcingA constant target of receipt-and-invoice phishing.
• netflix.comGrade BenforcingThe classic “your account is on hold” phish target.
• facebook.comGrade BenforcingAn early DMARC adopter at extreme scale.
• linkedin.comGrade BenforcingConnection-request phishing hardened this config early.
• chase.comGrade AenforcingUS banking's most-spoofed name, in a famously strict-enforcing sector.
• fedex.comGrade AenforcingOne of delivery-notification phishing's longest-running targets.
• dhl.comGrade BenforcingRoutinely top-three in global brand-phishing rankings.
• usps.comGrade AenforcingPackage-tracking phishing at national scale.

The mandated sector — US federal domains have been under an enforcement directive since 2018, the UK since 2016.

• cisa.govGrade AenforcingThe agency behind the federal DMARC mandate, BOD 18-01.
• dhs.govGrade BenforcingThe department that issued the 2017 directive — enforcement due within a year.
• whitehouse.govGrade BenforcingThe most-watched .gov configuration there is.
• irs.govGrade BenforcingTax-season phishing's biggest target, under federal mandate.
• nasa.govGrade BenforcingA sprawling federal mail estate under the same directive.
• gov.ukGrade BenforcingThe UK required DMARC for government services back in 2016.

Adoption studies consistently rank higher education last on enforcement — four famous names to compare.

• mit.eduGrade Bmonitor-onlyThe sector's most famous name — a natural first comparison.
• harvard.eduGrade BenforcingOne of the most-watched names in academic email.
• stanford.eduGrade BenforcingA large research-university mail estate — scale is the sector's whole challenge.
• berkeley.eduGrade BenforcingA university mail estate worth reading against its sector's reputation.

Where everyone else edits their DNS — and the records these companies publish for themselves.

• godaddy.comGrade BenforcingThe registrar where much of the world edits its DNS.
• namecheap.comGrade AenforcingRegistrar to millions of side projects and their TXT records.
• cloudflare.comGrade BenforcingThe DNS provider itself — the config behind the dashboard.
• squarespace.comGrade BenforcingThe website builder where many owners meet DNS for the first time.
• wordpress.comGrade BenforcingHosts a meaningful share of the web; its mail config matters at scale.