Locaweb (BR) email service provider (ESP)

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Locaweb (BR) is the email service provider (ESP) for 1,068 domains — 0.17% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Key facts

Locaweb (BR) is a Brazilian email service provider and hosting company that serves smaller and mid-market businesses across the country. It operates as a regional platform for email sending, web hosting, and related infrastructure services with a primarily Portuguese-speaking customer base.

Locaweb's presence in SPF records across the Tranco top-1M list—concentrated in .com.br domains and smaller sites rather than enterprise brands—means that anyone working on email deliverability for Brazilian recipients or senders will encounter its SPF include mechanisms regularly. For practitioners auditing authentication infrastructure, Locaweb's long-tail footprint is a standard part of the Brazilian email ecosystem.

Where Locaweb (BR) sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00000.0%
Top 10,00030.3%
Top 100,000393.7%
Top 1,000,00079974.8%
Unranked22721.3%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com.br84579.1%
.br1049.7%
.com858.0%
.net90.8%
.online50.5%
.org40.4%
.ws40.4%
.rio10.1%
.ba10.1%
.es10.1%

What Locaweb (BR) users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 1,068 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Locaweb (BR) users
MailboxLocaweb (BR)83277.9%
MailboxGoogle Workspace908.4%
MailboxMicrosoft 365434.0%
MailboxSelf-Hosted262.4%
MailboxKingHost (BR)201.9%
MailboxUnknown / Other50.5%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)10810.1%
ESPRD Station (BR)918.5%
ESPAmazon SES706.6%
ESPAll-In Mail252.3%

SPF authentication across smaller Brazilian sites

Locaweb publishes SPF include mechanisms that smaller Brazilian sites add to their DNS records to authorise email sending. When verifying SPF chains for domains in the .com.br space, you will encounter Locaweb's include blocks (include:locaweb.com.br or similar) as a regular occurrence. Understanding how Locaweb's SPF rules interact with your own records is necessary for debugging authentication failures on regional mail flows.

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Frequently asked questions

Why does Locaweb appear in email deliverability audits for Brazilian domains?

Locaweb is a major Brazilian email and hosting provider, and its SPF include mechanisms appear regularly in smaller .com.br domains. When auditing authentication for Brazilian sites, you will encounter Locaweb's SPF records as a normal part of the email infrastructure chain.

How many domains use Locaweb (BR)?

1,068 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Locaweb (BR) as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.17% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is Locaweb (BR) common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

Locaweb (BR) accounts for 0.17% 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 Locaweb (BR) most?

Locaweb (BR)'s largest TLD is .com.br (79.1% of its domains); it appears across 19 TLDs in total.

Other email service provider (ESP)s

Amazon SES (6.21%)SendGrid (Twilio) (4.75%)Mailgun (4.11%)Zendesk (3.87%)Mailchimp (3.69%)Mandrill (3.36%)HubSpot (3.18%)Salesforce (2.62%)Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%)Cloudflare Email Routing (1.80%)