According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Host-H (BG) is the email service provider (ESP) for 295 domains — 0.05% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Host-H (BG) is an email service provider identified through SPF include mechanisms in DNS records, predominantly serving smaller websites and regional sites rather than major global brands. The provider is concentrated within the .co.za namespace, where it forms one component of regional email infrastructure choices.
When Host-H (BG) appears in an organisation's SPF record, it indicates a long-tail, regionally-focused sender deployment, often paired with self-hosted mail infrastructure. For deliverability professionals, this footprint pattern signals that reputation assessment, filtering behaviour, and testing prioritisation should reflect the provider's regional scope and smaller scale compared to mainstream global ESPs.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 1 | 0.3% |
| Top 100,000 | 13 | 4.4% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 221 | 74.9% |
| Unranked | 60 | 20.3% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .co.za | 220 | 74.6% | |
| .com | 33 | 11.2% | |
| .za | 15 | 5.1% | |
| .org | 7 | 2.4% | |
| .net | 3 | 1.0% | |
| .mobi | 3 | 1.0% | |
| .africa | 3 | 1.0% | |
| .sz | 2 | 0.7% | |
| .info | 2 | 0.7% | |
| .app | 1 | 0.3% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 295 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Host-H (BG) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 199 | 67.5% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 35 | 11.9% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 27 | 9.2% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 14 | 4.7% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 8 | 2.7% |
| Mailbox | Host-H (BG) | 5 | 1.7% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 18 | 6.1% |
| ESP | Mimecast | 14 | 4.7% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 7 | 2.4% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 7 | 2.4% |
Host-H (BG) typically appears not as a standalone email solution but as part of a hybrid infrastructure model combining managed email services with on-premise mail systems. This pattern is common in regional deployments where organisations balance cost, control, and compliance requirements. Understanding this provider's footprint is relevant for those auditing sender configurations across regional markets or testing email routing behaviour when recipients use mixed infrastructure setups.
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Host-H (BG) is a regional email service provider serving smaller sites and long-tail deployments, particularly in South Africa; it typically operates as part of a hybrid infrastructure alongside self-hosted mail systems.
295 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Host-H (BG) 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.
Host-H (BG) 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.
Host-H (BG)'s largest TLD is .co.za (74.6% of its domains); it appears across 16 TLDs in total.