Proofpoint email service provider (ESP)

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Proofpoint is the email service provider (ESP) for 5,769 domains — 0.93% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Key facts

What the data shows

73.8% of its domains sit outside the top 100,000 — a long-tail footprint spread across smaller sites. Its single largest TLD is .com at 56.2% of its domains — a strong concentration across 179 TLDs overall. The service most often seen alongside it is Proofpoint (mailbox provider), on 81.9% of its domains.

Where Proofpoint sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,000170.3%
Top 10,0001602.8%
Top 100,0001,03317.9%
Top 1,000,0004,25573.8%
Unranked3045.3%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com3,24256.2%
.org3065.3%
.com.au1873.2%
.fr1452.5%
.de1412.4%
.ca1182.0%
.net1162.0%
.gov1111.9%
.com.br1091.9%
.co.uk1001.7%

What Proofpoint users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 5,769 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Proofpoint users
MailboxProofpoint4,72781.9%
MailboxMicrosoft 3653966.9%
MailboxUnknown / Other1212.1%
MailboxGoogle Workspace1111.9%
MailboxSelf-Hosted761.3%
MailboxMimecast410.7%
ESPSalesforce78413.6%
ESPAmazon SES5549.6%
ESPZendesk5158.9%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)4978.6%

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Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Proofpoint?

5,769 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Proofpoint as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 13, 2026 (0.93% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is Proofpoint common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

Proofpoint accounts for 0.93% 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 Proofpoint most?

Proofpoint's largest TLD is .com (56.2% of its domains); it appears across 179 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%)