Bullhorn email service provider (ESP)

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Bullhorn is the email service provider (ESP) for 103 domains — 0.02% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Key facts

Bullhorn is a talent management and customer relationship management platform that incorporates email capabilities for candidate outreach and pipeline communication. The service is provided by Bullhorn Inc., a cloud-based software company serving recruitment agencies, staffing firms, and talent-focused enterprises.

Bullhorn's SPF authentication footprint is concentrated in smaller organisations and the .com domain space, rather than appearing uniformly across enterprise-scale deployments. Its frequent co-occurrence with Microsoft 365 suggests a hybrid mail stack configuration where Bullhorn handles application-specific workflows—candidate notifications, job alerts, or process confirmations—whilst Microsoft 365 serves as the primary email platform. For mail receivers, the relative infrequency of Bullhorn-authenticated messages compared to major providers means they have accumulated less direct reputation history from Bullhorn sources, which can influence filtering approach and authentication signal interpretation.

Where Bullhorn sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00000.0%
Top 10,00000.0%
Top 100,00054.9%
Top 1,000,0008178.6%
Unranked1716.5%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com8178.6%
.co.uk65.8%
.com.au21.9%
.org21.9%
.in11.0%
.it11.0%
.net11.0%
.ie11.0%
.fr11.0%
.nl11.0%

What Bullhorn users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 103 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Bullhorn users
MailboxMicrosoft 3655755.3%
MailboxMimecast1615.5%
MailboxGoogle Workspace1211.7%
MailboxProofpoint76.8%
MailboxCisco IronPort32.9%
MailboxProofpoint Essentials21.9%
ESPHubSpot4644.7%
ESPSalesforce2625.2%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)2019.4%
ESPAmazon SES1514.6%

SPF configuration and reputation data in hybrid stacks

When Bullhorn is deployed alongside Microsoft 365, both providers' SPF mechanisms are typically included in the domain's authentication record. Mail receivers and ISPs accumulate reputation data separately for each authenticated source. Because Bullhorn mail is encountered less frequently than mail from dominant providers due to its concentration in smaller organisations, ISPs may have limited direct reputation history for Bullhorn-authenticated traffic, potentially resulting in less granular filtering rules or signal strength. Organisations using this hybrid configuration should monitor delivery performance and sender reputation across both authentication paths.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Bullhorn and why does it appear in my SPF record?

Bullhorn is a talent management platform with integrated email capabilities used by recruitment and staffing organisations for candidate communication and workflow-triggered mail. Its SPF include is added when you use Bullhorn's outreach features; since Bullhorn is primarily deployed by smaller organisations, mail receivers typically encounter it less frequently than major email providers.

How many domains use Bullhorn?

103 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Bullhorn as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 13, 2026 (0.02% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is Bullhorn common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

Bullhorn accounts for 0.02% 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.

Which countries or TLDs use Bullhorn most?

Bullhorn's largest TLD is .com (78.6% of its domains); it appears across 16 TLDs in total.

Other email service provider (ESP)s

Amazon SES (6.21%)SendGrid (Twilio) (4.76%)Mailgun (4.11%)Zendesk (3.86%)Mailchimp (3.69%)Mandrill (3.36%)HubSpot (3.18%)Salesforce (2.62%)Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%)Cloudflare Email Routing (1.80%)