According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), MailSwitch is the email service provider (ESP) for 105 domains — 0.02% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
MailSwitch is an email service provider identified through SPF include mechanisms in DNS records across internet domains. It operates primarily in the Netherlands and is concentrated among smaller and mid-market website operators rather than the largest global brands.
For email practitioners, MailSwitch's presence in this demographic and geography represents a long-tail segment of the sending ecosystem. Its frequent appearance alongside Microsoft 365 in SPF configurations suggests a particular niche in hybrid or multi-vendor email deployments, particularly within Dutch-language markets.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 3 | 2.9% |
| Top 100,000 | 14 | 13.3% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 85 | 81.0% |
| Unranked | 3 | 2.9% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .nl | 83 | 79.0% | |
| .com | 13 | 12.4% | |
| .be | 2 | 1.9% | |
| .org | 2 | 1.9% | |
| .travel | 1 | 1.0% | |
| .fr | 1 | 1.0% | |
| .eu | 1 | 1.0% | |
| .co | 1 | 1.0% | |
| .de | 1 | 1.0% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 105 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of MailSwitch users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 73 | 69.5% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 14 | 13.3% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 12 | 11.4% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint Essentials | 1 | 1.0% |
| Mailbox | Symantec MessageLabs | 1 | 1.0% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 1 | 1.0% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 17 | 16.2% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 14 | 13.3% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 14 | 13.3% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 13 | 12.4% |
MailSwitch SPF includes typically appear in DNS records that also reference Microsoft 365, suggesting a deployment pattern amongst organisations using both a primary cloud email platform and an additional ESP. This co-configuration is relevant during SPF audits, particularly for networks serving the Dutch market, as SPF chain depth and DNS lookup-count implications scale with the number of included mechanisms.
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MailSwitch's footprint is concentrated amongst smaller organisations and in the Netherlands rather than distributed across the largest global senders. Its relevance to your testing strategy depends on whether your recipient base significantly overlaps with those segments.
105 domains in the Tranco top-1M use MailSwitch as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.02% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
MailSwitch 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.
MailSwitch's largest TLD is .nl (79.0% of its domains); it appears across 9 TLDs in total.