According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), SecureMailGate is the email service provider (ESP) for 187 domains — 0.03% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
SecureMailGate is an email infrastructure provider whose presence is detected through SPF authentication records across the web. It serves as a mail handling and routing platform for websites that integrate it as part of their email infrastructure.
Analysis of its deployment footprint reveals it operates primarily within a smaller, regional segment of the web rather than among the largest global brands. SecureMailGate shows strong concentration in the German-language (.de) domain space and is frequently deployed alongside Hostpoint, a Swiss hosting provider, suggesting it functions as part of integrated mail and hosting bundles in the German-speaking region. For email professionals, this pattern indicates SecureMailGate is most relevant when managing deliverability to or from smaller European sites, particularly those in the German market or using regional hosting ecosystems.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 2 | 1.1% |
| Top 100,000 | 17 | 9.1% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 124 | 66.3% |
| Unranked | 44 | 23.5% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .de | 92 | 49.2% | |
| .com | 39 | 20.9% | |
| .at | 11 | 5.9% | |
| .net | 9 | 4.8% | |
| .org | 9 | 4.8% | |
| .fi | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .online | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .ch | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .eu | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .one | 2 | 1.1% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 187 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of SecureMailGate users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Hostpoint (CH) | 105 | 56.1% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 27 | 14.4% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 21 | 11.2% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 9 | 4.8% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 6 | 3.2% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mail.*) | 4 | 2.1% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 20 | 10.7% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 11 | 5.9% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 9 | 4.8% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 8 | 4.3% |
SecureMailGate's consistent co-occurrence with Hostpoint in SPF records reflects a common pattern among regional hosting providers: bundling email infrastructure, DNS, and web hosting into integrated packages for the German-speaking market. This tight coupling can influence how global mailbox providers classify and score mail from these domains. Because SecureMailGate sits outside the mainstream ESP landscape, mail originating from its infrastructure may encounter different reputation thresholds, filtering logic, or rate-limiting policies compared to mail from larger, globally-distributed platforms.
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SecureMailGate is a regional email infrastructure provider, primarily concentrated in the German market and often bundled with Swiss hosting services; because it sits outside the mainstream ESP landscape, mail authenticated through it may encounter different reputation scoring by major mailbox providers.
187 domains in the Tranco top-1M use SecureMailGate as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.03% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
SecureMailGate accounts for 0.03% 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.
SecureMailGate's largest TLD is .de (49.2% of its domains); it appears across 27 TLDs in total.