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Email authentication across 302 Wisconsin chamber-of-commerce and municipal domains
Measured 4 September 2026 from public DNS only. No mail was sent, no site was crawled, and no organisation was contacted.
Why this exists
Every published survey of email authentication we could find measures large enterprises or whole countries. Nobody measures the organisations that a Wisconsin resident actually receives mail from — the village hall, the city clerk, the county chamber. So we measured them.
Method, stated so it can be checked or contradicted
- 1,572 candidate domain names were generated mechanically from 120 Wisconsin place names crossed with 12 naming patterns (cityof….com, …wi.gov, ci.….wi.us, …chamber.com and so on). Nothing was hand-picked, so the sample is a naming convention, not a directory.
- Each name was queried over DNS-over-HTTPS against two independent resolvers (Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 and Google 8.8.8.8) for TXT, MX, _dmarc TXT, and the two Microsoft DKIM selector names.
- 302 names resolved with an SPF record or an MX record and form the sample. The other 1,270 do not exist and were discarded, not counted.
- A domain is treated as a Microsoft 365 tenant when its SPF record includes spf.protection.outlook.com.
- Before the DKIM result was believed, every candidate was probed with a random 14-character selector name. Four domains answered that probe — they run wildcard DNS under _domainkey, so no selector result from them means anything. They are excluded from the DKIM denominator and named as excluded rather than dropped silently.
- Selector presence is tested as CNAME or TXT. Our own first pass tested CNAME alone and was wrong by nine domains; the number below is the corrected one.
What 302 Wisconsin domains publish
| Finding | Chambers n=117 | Municipal n=185 | All n=302 |
|---|---|---|---|
| No SPF record at all | 23 | 14 | 37 (12.3%) |
| No DMARC record at all | 69 | 100 | 169 (56.0%) |
| DMARC published, p=none — asks receivers to take no action | 40 | 32 | 72 (23.8%) |
| DMARC p=quarantine | 6 | 25 | 31 (10.3%) |
| DMARC p=reject | 2 | 26 | 28 (9.3%) |
| DMARC record present but syntactically invalid | 0 | 2 | 2 |
241 of 302 — 79.8% — publish nothing a receiver can act on. They either have no DMARC record, or one that asks for no action, or one a receiver must reject as malformed. The two malformed records are the same organisation twice: a record written without semicolons between its tags, which RFC 7489 requires. A receiver that follows the standard reads that as no record at all, so the operator believes they are protected and are not.
The finding nobody else prints
122 of the 302 are Microsoft 365 tenants. Four are excluded for wildcard DNS, leaving 118. Of those 118:
| Both Microsoft DKIM selectors published | 74 |
| Exactly one published | 1 |
| Neither published | 43 |
36.4% of Wisconsin public-facing Microsoft 365 tenants have never enabled DKIM signing for their own domain.
Wilson 95% interval 28.3% to 45.4%. Chambers 57.1% (16/28), municipal 30.0% (27/90).
When neither selector1._domainkey nor selector2._domainkey resolves, the tenant is signing outbound mail as onmicrosoft.com rather than as itself. DMARC can then only ever pass on SPF alignment — and SPF alignment is exactly what breaks when a message is forwarded, put through a mailing list, or relayed by a third party. Those messages fail authentication at the receiver even though they are genuine. It is the one defect in this whole survey whose remedy is safe to apply immediately: publishing the two CNAMEs and enabling signing cannot break mail that is already flowing, unlike the SPF surgery most findings lead to.
What is deliberately not on this page
We are not publishing the list of which named organisations are exposed. An aggregate tells a reader how common a problem is; a list tells a spoofer where to start. If you want to know where a specific domain stands, read it yourself below — the tool queries live DNS and stores nothing you type.
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Corrections
Every number here came from a DNS query made on 4 September 2026 and can be re-run by anyone against the same two resolvers. DNS changes; a number that is wrong tomorrow was not wrong today. If a figure here is wrong now, the tools above will say so.