By Cargo / Household Goods
Household Goods Carriers — Email Security
81.6% of active household goods carrier domains have no enforced DMARC — leaving this segment open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.
No enforced DMARC
81.6%
national: 80.1%
p=reject
6.9%
national: 7.5%
Microsoft 365
32.8%
national: 38.1%
M365 + no DMARC (carriers)
4,070
national: 92,822
MTA-STS
3.9%
national: 3.3%
DNSSEC
5.7%
national: 6.1%
Dead domains
1,280
of 14,907 scanned
Total carriers
17,343
1,283 with dead domain
Risk bands — Household Goods carriers
Carrier counts by risk band (composite email-security pain score). Critical = score 70+; Minimal = score <15.
| Risk band | Score range | Carriers | Domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | score 70+ | 1,706 | 1,585 |
| High | score 50–69 | 4,643 | 4,292 |
| Medium | score 30–49 | 7,073 | 5,816 |
| Low | score 15–29 | 2,478 | 1,836 |
| Minimal | score <15 | 160 | 98 |
Household Goods vs. national average
What the Household Goods numbers actually mean
Segment exposure framing. Household-goods carriers operate in a consumer-facing environment with low-frequency, high-trust transactions — a single fraudulent invoice can drain a residential customer's relocation budget.
DMARC posture. The household goodssegment's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 81.6% — within 1.5 points of the national average. enforced p=reject DMARC adoption tracks the national pool — meaning most domains in this segment either have no DMARC at all or are stuck at the monitor-only p=none policy. At the protective end of the distribution, 6.9% of segment domains are at p=reject — the only DMARC policy that actually instructs receivers to drop spoofed mail.
Microsoft 365 surface. Microsoft 365 mailflow adoption sits below the national rate, which shifts the remediation surface toward self-hosted and Google Workspace estates where DMARC has to be configured at the DNS layer rather than flipped on in a tenant policy. That share is 23.5% of all household goods carriers — a one-flag-flip remediation set that segment-specific MSPs can clear in a single quarter without touching DNS infrastructure.
Transport encryption. MTA-STS adoption sits at 3.9%, materially below the threshold a freight payment-redirect attacker would have to clear to be inconvenienced by transport-layer policy. DNSSEC adoption across household goods carriers runs at 5.7% (vs 6.1% national).
Risk-band shape. 9.8% of Household Goods carriers sit in the critical risk band (score 70+) — above the national share of 8.4% — meaning a disproportionate cluster carries simultaneously broken SPF, missing or monitor-only DMARC, and no MTA-STS.
Best-practice control for this segment. Relocation buyers should require DMARC-verified mail and a callback verification on any payment detail change before final wire.
Compare Household Goods with other cargo segments
Segments closest in carrier-count rank to Household Goods. Each is scored on the same DNS-derived control set, so the comparison is apples-to-apples.
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Data as of 2026-05-20 from public DNS measurements. Statistics are domain-weighted unless noted. Cargo segment membership is based on FMCSA Company Census cargo flags. Methodology: read the full index.