According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Alibaba Cloud is the mailbox provider for 1,369 domains — 0.21% of 658,108 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing and infrastructure division of Alibaba Group. It operates email services and mailbox hosting for a distributed customer base, primarily in regional and emerging markets.
Its MX record footprint concentrates on the .com namespace and skews towards smaller, mid-market sites in regional markets—often alongside Alibaba DirectMail. Senders and recipients encountering Alibaba Cloud typically work with long-tail domains, reflecting the platform's position in emerging-market and small-business segments.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 2 | 0.1% |
| Top 10,000 | 10 | 0.7% |
| Top 100,000 | 127 | 9.3% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 854 | 62.4% |
| Unranked | 376 | 27.5% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 960 | 70.1% | |
| .cn | 122 | 8.9% | |
| .net | 60 | 4.4% | |
| .com.cn | 44 | 3.2% | |
| .ai | 28 | 2.0% | |
| .cc | 17 | 1.2% | |
| .org | 15 | 1.1% | |
| .io | 11 | 0.8% | |
| .jp | 6 | 0.4% | |
| .top | 6 | 0.4% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 1,369 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba Cloud users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail | 166 | 12.1% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) | 71 | 5.2% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 34 | 2.5% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 27 | 2.0% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 14 | 1.0% |
| ESP | Zoho Campaigns | 10 | 0.7% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 10 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Tapfiliate | 4 | 0.3% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 3 | 0.2% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 2 | 0.1% |
Alibaba Cloud serves regional, .com-centric small-business customers, frequently deployed in tandem with Alibaba DirectMail for outbound delivery. Its market positioning and technical environment differ from mainstream Western mailbox providers, and senders should test authentication and deliverability practices specifically against Alibaba Cloud rather than assuming parity with global-market mail infrastructure.
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Alibaba Cloud is Alibaba Group's infrastructure platform providing email services and mailbox hosting, primarily for regional and small-business customers. It appears as the mail provider for long-tail domains in the .com namespace rather than the largest global brands.
1,369 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba Cloud as their mailbox provider as of July 12, 2026 (0.21% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Alibaba Cloud accounts for 0.21% of domains with MX records 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.
Alibaba Cloud's largest TLD is .com (70.1% of its domains); it appears across 66 TLDs in total.