The sixth JPAAWG General Meeting was held in Kanazawa, Japan on November 6th and 7th of 2023. Attendance was strong, with many attendees participating in Q&A over two days of engaging technical and practical presentations. This year’s presentation again summarized developments in the IETF‘s DMARC Working Group since the prior meeting, and updates on technical […]
M3AAWG Calls for Coalition to Support Public Suffix List
The Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, or M3AAWG, has released a blog post and white paper calling for the creation of an industry coalition to support the Public Suffix List (PSL). The PSL is an initiative under the Mozilla Foundation, and identifies the parts of the Internet domain name space under which organizations […]
Microsoft Allows 365 Admins To Accept ARC Forwarders
Back in October 2019, Microsoft included ARC support in their Microsoft 365 Roadmap, stating that “[ARC] is now enabled for Office 365 hosted mailboxes.” But at that time it could only be used between Office 365 tenants, or from Microsoft’s in-house services. However in June of 2022 they made it possible for each tenant to […]
DMARC.org at Fifth JPAAWG General Meeting
The fifth JPAAWG General Meeting was held on November 7th and 8th in Nagasaki, Japan. For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, DMARC.org was able to deliver a keynote presentation in person. A strong conference program generated excellent attendance, both in-person and online, and the facilities were top notch. This year’s […]
DMARC Policies Up 84% for 2021
Over the course of 2021 the number of valid DMARC policies observed in use rose by 84%, to a total of nearly 5 million unique records, compared to the prior calendar year. This doubles the percentage increase seen in 2020, and reflects an acceleration of growth in the second half of the year. Starting with […]
DMARC.org Presentation from Fourth JPAAWG Meeting
The fourth JPAAWG General Meeting was held on November 11-12th of 2021, using a virtual format. DMARC.org once again provided a pre-recorded presentation, this time in three parts. The three sections are: an overview of BIMI, a survey of recent IETF activity related to email, and various statistics about email authentication. This statistics section includes […]
DMARC Announced Ten Years Ago
On January 30th of 2012, fifteen organizations announced the working group they had formed, and the first version of the protocol they had produced. This was the public kickoff of both DMARC.org and the DMARC protocol. It would grow from just 450 published sending domain policies and 2 billion protected mailboxes after one year, to […]
Thousands of BIMI Records Published During 2021
Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) enables email senders to have a logo or image of their choosing displayed next to email messages they send to participating mailbox providers. BIMI builds on DMARC and related email authentication standards to ensure that only messages authorized by those senders display such images, so it frequently comes up […]
DMARC policies increase 28% Through June 2021
The number of valid DMARC policies observed in the DNS increased by 28% over the first half of 2021, to a total of 3.46 million, based on analysis of data supplied by Farsight Security. This was double the growth rate during the same period in 2020, when roughly 330,000 new records reflected a 17% increase […]
DMARC Policies Increase 43% over 2020
The number of valid DMARC policies observed in the DNS increased by 42.9% over the course of 2020, to a total of 2.7 million, based on analysis of data supplied by Farsight Security. While this represents robust growth in DMARC adoption, it is significantly lower than the 250% to 300% observed over the previous few […]