According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Alibaba DirectMail is the email service provider (ESP) for 301 domains — 0.05% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Alibaba DirectMail is an email delivery service operated by Alibaba Cloud, the public cloud division of Alibaba Group. It provides email infrastructure for transactional and marketing mail, authenticated via SPF records published by the platform.
The platform's footprint concentrates among smaller and mid-market organisations on .com domains, typically alongside other Alibaba Cloud services. For senders and mail administrators, this means encounters with Alibaba DirectMail come mostly from SMBs embedded in Alibaba's cloud ecosystem, not from large-scale or enterprise-focused senders.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 9 | 3.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 45 | 15.0% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 205 | 68.1% |
| Unranked | 42 | 14.0% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 185 | 61.5% | |
| .cn | 30 | 10.0% | |
| .net | 19 | 6.3% | |
| .com.cn | 16 | 5.3% | |
| .org | 8 | 2.7% | |
| .ai | 6 | 2.0% | |
| .cc | 5 | 1.7% | |
| .io | 4 | 1.3% | |
| .top | 4 | 1.3% | |
| .tech | 3 | 1.0% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 301 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba DirectMail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Alibaba Cloud | 166 | 55.1% |
| Mailbox | Alibaba Mail (China) | 28 | 9.3% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 21 | 7.0% |
| Mailbox | QQ Mail (Tencent) | 14 | 4.7% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 12 | 4.0% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 10 | 3.3% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 12 | 4.0% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 8 | 2.7% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 7 | 2.3% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) | 6 | 2.0% |
Alibaba DirectMail's user base skews towards smaller businesses on .com domains, so its reputation in recipient mail systems reflects SMB sending practices rather than large-scale senders. Because it typically co-occurs with other Alibaba Cloud infrastructure, recipient ISPs may evaluate its legitimacy and reputation as part of the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem rather than as a standalone ESP.
See the full Alibaba DirectMail data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
Alibaba DirectMail's concentration among smaller businesses makes it a lower-priority deliverability test for organisations with mass-market audience targets, though testing may be warranted if your sending infrastructure uses Alibaba Cloud or your recipients are predominantly SMBs.
301 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba DirectMail as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.05% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Alibaba DirectMail accounts for 0.05% 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's largest TLD is .com (61.5% of its domains); it appears across 28 TLDs in total.