According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) is the email service provider (ESP) for 183 domains — 0.03% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Alibaba DirectMail is an email service platform operated by Alibaba Cloud, offering SMTP relay, sender authentication, and delivery infrastructure for bulk and transactional email across the Asia-Pacific region.
Detected via SPF include mechanisms in the Tranco top-1 million domain list, Alibaba DirectMail's footprint concentrates in the long tail of smaller to mid-market sites rather than the largest global brands, heavily represented in the .com space. Its tight integration with Alibaba Cloud infrastructure means its sender reputation is often entangled with broader Alibaba Cloud IP ranges, which affects deliverability consistency across different recipient geographies.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 1 | 0.5% |
| Top 10,000 | 4 | 2.2% |
| Top 100,000 | 27 | 14.8% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 128 | 69.9% |
| Unranked | 23 | 12.6% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 99 | 54.1% | |
| .net | 9 | 4.9% | |
| .id | 6 | 3.3% | |
| .co.id | 6 | 3.3% | |
| .ai | 5 | 2.7% | |
| .org | 5 | 2.7% | |
| .com.my | 3 | 1.6% | |
| .xyz | 3 | 1.6% | |
| .io | 3 | 1.6% | |
| .vip | 2 | 1.1% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 183 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Alibaba Cloud | 70 | 38.3% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 32 | 17.5% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 17 | 9.3% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 14 | 7.7% |
| Mailbox | Lark / Feishu (ByteDance) | 14 | 7.7% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mail.*) | 4 | 2.2% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 13 | 7.1% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 11 | 6.0% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 8 | 4.4% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail | 6 | 3.3% |
Alibaba DirectMail relies on SPF include mechanisms for email authentication and routing, a pattern observable across the Tranco top-1 million domain list and most prevalent in Alibaba Cloud deployments. Because it is tightly integrated with Alibaba Cloud infrastructure, the reputation scoring of Alibaba DirectMail's IP ranges is often entangled with that of other Alibaba Cloud services—a pattern that can accelerate reputation gains for well-behaved senders but concentrate harm if abuse occurs on shared infrastructure.
See the full Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
If your recipients are predominantly in Asia-Pacific regions or rely on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure, yes—Alibaba DirectMail is a legitimate and widely-used platform there. For primarily Western-centric audiences, it is less critical, though understanding its reputation patterns becomes important if you plan to expand into APAC markets.
183 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 13, 2026 (0.03% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) accounts for 0.03% of SPF-publishing domains in the top 1M. Whether you should seed a test mailbox there depends on how much of your audience it represents — the co-usage table above shows the services it appears alongside most.
Alibaba DirectMail (APAC)'s largest TLD is .com (54.1% of its domains); it appears across 45 TLDs in total.