According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Alibaba Mail (China) is the mailbox provider for 2,083 domains — 0.32% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Alibaba Mail is a hosted email service operated by Alibaba, the Chinese multinational conglomerate, providing mail infrastructure for organisations seeking alternatives to the largest global providers. It serves primarily smaller and mid-market organisations rather than major enterprises or consumer brands.
In deliverability terms, Alibaba Mail appears concentrated in the long tail of smaller websites rather than among top-tier brands, predominantly in the .com namespace, serving global audiences with a regional skew towards the US. Its frequent co-location with Mailgun in MX records suggests it is commonly used by startups and smaller enterprises. For senders testing against diverse mail infrastructure or delivering to small-to-mid-market segments, recognising Alibaba Mail is a practical part of understanding mail provider diversity across the web.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 3 | 0.1% |
| Top 10,000 | 10 | 0.5% |
| Top 100,000 | 190 | 9.1% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 1,323 | 63.5% |
| Unranked | 557 | 26.7% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 1,477 | 70.9% | |
| .cn | 240 | 11.5% | |
| .net | 113 | 5.4% | |
| .com.cn | 87 | 4.2% | |
| .cc | 20 | 1.0% | |
| .org | 15 | 0.7% | |
| .top | 13 | 0.6% | |
| .hk | 6 | 0.3% | |
| .de | 6 | 0.3% | |
| .co | 6 | 0.3% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 2,083 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba Mail (China) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Mailgun | 35 | 1.7% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 33 | 1.6% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail | 27 | 1.3% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 25 | 1.2% |
| ESP | Constant Contact | 22 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Freshdesk | 22 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 12 | 0.6% |
| ESP | SendPulse | 11 | 0.5% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 11 | 0.5% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 9 | 0.4% |
When Alibaba Mail appears as a primary MX record, it typically signals a smaller organisational footprint and price-conscious purchasing decisions rather than standardisation on Microsoft, Google, or other major providers. The concentration of Alibaba Mail in .com registrations (despite its Chinese origin) indicates it has attracted Western and globally-focused small businesses. For deliverability engineers, its presence is a heuristic for smaller sender volume, simpler SMTP authentication requirements, and inbound filtering policies that are often less restrictive than those of the major mail providers.
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Alibaba Mail is a hosted email service operated by Alibaba, typically used by smaller organisations and startups. You are most likely to encounter it when sending to smaller websites, testing deliverability across diverse internet populations, or examining the mail infrastructure of startups and small-to-mid-market organisations.
2,083 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba Mail (China) as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.32% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Alibaba Mail (China) accounts for 0.32% 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 Mail (China) is growing — its share moved +0.02 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 13, 2026).
Alibaba Mail (China)'s largest TLD is .com (70.9% of its domains); it appears across 69 TLDs in total.