Q-Send email service provider (ESP)

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Q-Send is the email service provider (ESP) for 370 domains — 0.06% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Key facts

Q-Send is an email service provider offering email campaign and delivery services to customer websites. It is identifiable in customer domain infrastructure through SPF authentication records that list Q-Send as an include.

Q-Send's customer base concentrates in the long tail of smaller and mid-market websites rather than the largest global brands, with particularly strong presence in Japanese-language sites and .jp domains, where it frequently appears alongside FSI, a Japanese ISP. This regional and market-segment concentration means senders targeting Japan or Asia-Pacific regions should include Q-Send in their email authentication audits and reputation monitoring.

Where Q-Send sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00000.0%
Top 10,00000.0%
Top 100,000277.3%
Top 1,000,00030281.6%
Unranked4111.1%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.jp13335.9%
.com12132.7%
.co.jp9525.7%
.net133.5%
.shop30.8%
.ne.jp20.5%
.link10.3%
.coop10.3%
.tw10.3%

What Q-Send users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 370 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Q-Send users
MailboxFSI (JP ISP)13235.7%
MailboxGoogle Workspace5214.1%
MailboxUnknown / Other4913.2%
MailboxSelf-Hosted4010.8%
MailboxMicrosoft 3654010.8%
MailboxSecureMX (JP)113.0%
ESPFSI Email Security18048.6%
ESPAmazon SES7720.8%
ESPRepica WebCAS328.6%
ESPCybermail154.1%

Q-Send and Japanese email infrastructure

Q-Send's prominence in .jp domains and frequent co-occurrence with FSI indicates its role in Japanese email delivery infrastructure. Senders targeting Japanese recipients or testing against Japanese mailbox providers should verify that their SPF records correctly reference Q-Send and monitor how recipient ISPs treat Q-Send traffic in their filtering and reputation systems.

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Frequently asked questions

Should I test my email deliverability through Q-Send?

If you send email to Japanese recipients, include Q-Send in your deliverability testing, as it is prevalent in Japanese email infrastructure. For non-Japan targeting, test Q-Send only if your own sending infrastructure uses it.

How many domains use Q-Send?

370 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Q-Send as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.06% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is Q-Send common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

Q-Send accounts for 0.06% 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 Q-Send most?

Q-Send's largest TLD is .jp (35.9% of its domains); it appears across 9 TLDs in total.

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