hotmail.com is a free email provider

hotmail.com is a major consumer mailbox provider. Anyone can open an address, and at this scale a forged message is usually caught by the provider even where the domain's own records would let it through.

Major provider Spoofable

86 /100

Strong

Email authentication report card

What hotmail.com publishes in DNS to stop other people sending mail in its name, read record by record.

2 pass 3 weak

Can mail be forged as this domain?

Yes on paper, but unlikely to land

DMARC is set to p=none, which only asks for reports, so nothing this domain publishes tells a receiver to reject a forged message. In practice a forgery will still be caught: a provider this size runs its own reputation and content filtering on top of what the domain publishes. That safety net is the provider's, not the domain's.

  • Pass

    SPF -all

    The record ends in -all, so a receiver is told to treat mail from any host outside the list as a forgery.

  • Weak

    DMARC p=none

    A DMARC record is published, but p=none only asks for reports. Receivers are told to deliver failing mail anyway, so this stops no forgery.

    A checker that reports "DMARC found" here is telling you nothing useful.

  • Weak

    MTA-STS testing

    A policy is published in testing mode. Failures are reported but delivery still goes ahead over an unverified connection.

  • Weak

    DNSSEC Not signed

    The zone is not signed. A resolver has no cryptographic way to tell a real answer from a forged one.

  • Pass

    TLS-RPT Published

    Sending servers have an address to report failed TLS deliveries to.

Why it scores 86?

  1. Registered more than five years ago.
  2. Accepts mail through 1 MX host.
  3. SPF ends in -all, so mail from any other server is rejected.

What to publish to close the gaps

The records hotmail.com is missing, in the order they are worth doing. Owner names are written out in full, so they work whether your DNS panel wants a full name or a relative one.

  1. Move DMARC off p=none

    Name_dmarc.hotmail.com
    TypeTXT
    Valuev=DMARC1; p=quarantine; pct=100; rua=mailto:[email protected]

    p=none blocks nothing. Once your reports show every legitimate sender passing, raise the policy to quarantine and then to reject.

  2. Switch MTA-STS to enforce

    Valuemode: enforce

    Change mode in https://mta-sts.hotmail.com/.well-known/mta-sts.txt and bump the id in the TXT record. Testing mode reports failures but still delivers.

  3. Sign the zone with DNSSEC

    Turn DNSSEC on with your DNS provider, then publish the DS record it hands you at your registrar. Every record above is only as trustworthy as the answer that carries it, and signing the zone is what makes the answers verifiable.

Questions about hotmail.com

Every answer below is generated from the stored record for this domain.

Is hotmail.com a disposable email domain?
No. hotmail.com is a consumer mailbox provider, so addresses are permanent, but anyone can open one in a minute.
Is hotmail.com spoofable?
Yes on paper, but unlikely to land. DMARC is set to p=none, which only asks for reports, so nothing this domain publishes tells a receiver to reject a forged message. In practice a forgery will still be caught: a provider this size runs its own reputation and content filtering on top of what the domain publishes. That safety net is the provider's, not the domain's.
Does hotmail.com publish SPF and DMARC?
hotmail.com publishes an SPF record that ends in -all, the strict form. DMARC is published but set to p=none, which only asks for reports. It looks like protection and is not.
Who handles email for hotmail.com?
Mail for hotmail.com is handled by Microsoft (Outlook.com), which carries 4 other domains we track.
How old is the hotmail.com domain?
The hotmail.com domain was registered 30 years ago. The registrar of record is MarkMonitor Inc.
How do I block hotmail.com on my signup form?
We do not classify hotmail.com as disposable, so blocking it outright would turn away real people. If you want to act on it, decide on the signals listed above rather than the name.
Can I trust email from hotmail.com?
hotmail.com scores 86 out of 100, which is a strong band. The score is a summary of the classification, infrastructure, authentication, reputation and lifecycle signals we hold, not a judgment about any individual sender at that domain.

Last verified . We recheck every domain on a schedule, and this report changes only when its records or its verdict do.