According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Engaging Networks is the email service provider (ESP) for 245 domains — 0.04% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Engaging Networks is an email service platform used primarily by nonprofits, charities, and advocacy organisations to manage their communications and sending infrastructure. It operates most visibly in the .org domain space, where it often appears alongside Microsoft 365 in hybrid deployments that segment mail responsibilities between multiple vendors.
Because Engaging Networks sits predominantly in the long tail of smaller-volume senders rather than among the largest global brands, anyone monitoring email deliverability will encounter it chiefly when handling nonprofit and advocacy mail. Understanding its infrastructure role—particularly how it appears in SPF chains—is relevant for sysadmins troubleshooting authentication and for senders assessing their own authentication footprint in the nonprofit sector.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 4 | 1.6% |
| Top 100,000 | 62 | 25.3% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 174 | 71.0% |
| Unranked | 5 | 2.0% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .org | 147 | 60.0% | |
| .org.uk | 58 | 23.7% | |
| .ca | 17 | 6.9% | |
| .com | 10 | 4.1% | |
| .net | 2 | 0.8% | |
| .de | 2 | 0.8% | |
| .earth | 1 | 0.4% | |
| .au | 1 | 0.4% | |
| .ac.uk | 1 | 0.4% | |
| .app | 1 | 0.4% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 245 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Engaging Networks users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 151 | 61.6% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 30 | 12.2% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 19 | 7.8% |
| Mailbox | Barracuda | 11 | 4.5% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 6 | 2.4% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint Essentials | 5 | 2.0% |
| ESP | Salesforce | 49 | 20.0% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 39 | 15.9% |
| ESP | Blackbaud | 30 | 12.2% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 29 | 11.8% |
Engaging Networks typically appears in SPF records as an include directive, frequently coexisting with Microsoft 365 entries where organisations split outbound mail duties between platforms. This hybrid pattern, common among resource-constrained organisations, means .org SPF records often accumulate more include statements than enterprise deployments, occasionally increasing the complexity of SPF lookups and authentication chains. Recognising this as a standard configuration pattern for nonprofits is useful for sysadmins debugging mail flow issues or for senders optimising their own SPF architecture.
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Engaging Networks is a standard email platform for the nonprofit sector, so its SPF include is routine in .org mail. The pattern reflects hybrid deployments where organisations split sending responsibilities between Engaging Networks and platforms such as Microsoft 365 to match their operational workflows.
245 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Engaging Networks as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 13, 2026 (0.04% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Engaging Networks accounts for 0.04% 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.
Engaging Networks's largest TLD is .org (60.0% of its domains); it appears across 15 TLDs in total.