SendPulse email service provider (ESP)

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), SendPulse is the email service provider (ESP) for 2,880 domains — 0.47% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Key facts

SendPulse is an email service platform that provides bulk mail delivery, marketing automation, and transactional email sending for organisations of various sizes. The platform is identified in email infrastructure audits through its presence in SPF records, where it appears as an authorised sending mechanism for domains that route mail through SendPulse's mail relay and SMTP services.

SendPulse's footprint skews towards mid-market and smaller organisations rather than the largest enterprises, with adoption spread internationally across many country-level domains but concentrated in the .com namespace. Its frequent co-appearance with Google Workspace suggests a common pattern whereby businesses run their primary email on Workspace but outsource bulk or marketing mail to SendPulse—a strategy to isolate transactional and promotional traffic from core domain reputation.

Where SendPulse sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00000.0%
Top 10,000270.9%
Top 100,00033411.6%
Top 1,000,0002,20176.4%
Unranked31811.0%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com75526.2%
.ru62821.8%
.com.br2177.5%
.ua2087.2%
.com.ua1635.7%
.net762.6%
.org712.5%
.io582.0%
.by541.9%
.kz381.3%

What SendPulse users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 2,880 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of SendPulse users
MailboxGoogle Workspace83429.0%
MailboxSelf-Hosted54919.1%
MailboxYandex 36037212.9%
MailboxMicrosoft 3652358.2%
MailboxMail.ru for Business1164.0%
MailboxUnknown / Other1113.9%
ESPUnisender (RU)32011.1%
ESPAmazon SES1655.7%
ESPMailgun1394.8%
ESPeSputnik (UA)1364.7%

SPF authentication and delegation

SendPulse's visibility in SPF records reflects its role as an outsourced sending platform; organisations authorise SendPulse by adding its SPF include to their domain policy. This centralises authentication credentials and IP reputation at the ESP level, which simplifies administration for smaller organisations but ties deliverability to SendPulse's compliance practices and IP reputation management. Accuracy in SPF and DKIM configuration is therefore essential to avoid authentication failures and inbox filtering.

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Frequently asked questions

What is SendPulse and why do I see it in email infrastructure audits?

SendPulse is an email service platform used by mid-market and smaller organisations to send marketing and transactional mail, appearing in SPF records when receiving mail from their customers and often paired with Google Workspace.

How many domains use SendPulse?

2,880 domains in the Tranco top-1M use SendPulse as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.47% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is SendPulse common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

SendPulse accounts for 0.47% 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.

Is SendPulse growing or declining?

SendPulse has been stable — its share moved -0.00 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 12, 2026).

Which countries or TLDs use SendPulse most?

SendPulse's largest TLD is .com (26.2% of its domains); it appears across 195 TLDs in total.

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