According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Wild West Domains Forwarder is the email service provider (ESP) for 216 domains — 0.04% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Wild West Domains Forwarder is email infrastructure operated by Wild West Domains (now part of GoDaddy) that handles mail forwarding and basic hosted email services for domain registrants. It appears in SPF configurations when domains choose to delegate their email routing through the registrar's platform.
The presence of Wild West Domains Forwarder in a site's SPF record typically signals a smaller organisation using basic email forwarding rather than a dedicated enterprise mail service. This footprint—concentrated among .com domains and frequently paired with Rackspace's Hosted Email infrastructure—means mail from such senders arrives on shared infrastructure with broad attack surface, making authentication quality and reputation management particularly important for achieving reliable inbox placement.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 4 | 1.9% |
| Top 100,000 | 35 | 16.2% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 159 | 73.6% |
| Unranked | 18 | 8.3% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 132 | 61.1% | |
| .net | 34 | 15.7% | |
| .org | 18 | 8.3% | |
| .ca | 4 | 1.9% | |
| .tv | 4 | 1.9% | |
| .gr | 3 | 1.4% | |
| .fi | 3 | 1.4% | |
| .co.uk | 2 | 0.9% | |
| .ro | 2 | 0.9% | |
| .pt | 1 | 0.5% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 216 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Wild West Domains Forwarder users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Hosted Email (Rackspace/IONOS) | 92 | 42.6% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 37 | 17.1% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 18 | 8.3% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 12 | 5.6% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 7 | 3.2% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) | 6 | 2.8% |
| ESP | MailChannels | 16 | 7.4% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 12 | 5.6% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 9 | 4.2% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 5 | 2.3% |
Domains delegating to Wild West Domains Forwarder must add the registrar's SPF include to their own DNS record. Correct SPF syntax and monitoring for include chains (which can exceed the standard 10-lookup limit) are essential; misconfigured records or redundant includes can cause legitimate mail to fail SPF checks, degrading deliverability even when the infrastructure itself is functioning correctly.
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Wild West Domains Forwarder is email infrastructure run by Wild West Domains that handles mail forwarding and basic hosted email for domain registrants. It appears in SPF records because domains using the registrar's email service must authorise this forwarder to send mail on their behalf.
216 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Wild West Domains Forwarder as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 13, 2026 (0.04% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Wild West Domains Forwarder accounts for 0.04% 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.
Wild West Domains Forwarder's largest TLD is .com (61.1% of its domains); it appears across 23 TLDs in total.