Alibaba Mail mailbox provider
According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), Alibaba Mail is the mailbox provider for 1,157 domains — 0.17% of 675,489 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Key facts
- 1,157 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba Mail (0.17% of domains with MX records).
- Snapshot date: 2026-09-24 — recomputed every day.
- Strongest TLD: .com (74.3% of its domains).
- Region skew: Global / US-skewed.
- Most co-used service: Mailgun.
- Directory category: mailbox provider.
Why Alibaba Mail appears in this category
Alibaba Cloud Enterprise Mail, China.
We classify it as a mailbox provider from primary MX record (lowest preference) matching a maintained provider rule. This is infrastructure attribution from public DNS, not evidence of a direct contract or exclusive use.
What the data shows
86.9% of its domains sit outside the top 100,000 — a long-tail footprint spread across smaller sites. Its single largest TLD is .com at 74.3% of its domains — a strong concentration across 47 TLDs overall. The service most often seen alongside it is Mailgun (ESP), on 2.6% of its domains.
Where Alibaba Mail sits in the Tranco ranking
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 10 | 0.9% |
| Top 100,000 | 130 | 11.2% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 1,005 | 86.9% |
| Unranked | 12 | 1.0% |
Top-level domain split
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 860 | 74.3% | |
| .cn | 99 | 8.6% | |
| .net | 39 | 3.4% | |
| .com.cn | 37 | 3.2% | |
| .ai | 25 | 2.2% | |
| .cc | 12 | 1.0% | |
| .jp | 8 | 0.7% | |
| .io | 6 | 0.5% | |
| .org | 5 | 0.4% | |
| .tech | 5 | 0.4% |
What Alibaba Mail users also use
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 1,157 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba Mail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Mailgun | 30 | 2.6% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 22 | 1.9% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail | 20 | 1.7% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 12 | 1.0% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 10 | 0.9% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 10 | 0.9% |
| ESP | Zoho Campaigns | 7 | 0.6% |
| ESP | Benchmark Email | 6 | 0.5% |
| ESP | Tapfiliate | 4 | 0.3% |
| ESP | MailerLite | 3 | 0.3% |
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Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Alibaba Mail?
1,157 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba Mail as their mailbox provider as of September 24, 2026 (0.17% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Is Alibaba Mail common enough to affect email deliverability testing?
Alibaba Mail accounts for 0.17% 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.
Which countries or TLDs use Alibaba Mail most?
Alibaba Mail's largest TLD is .com (74.3% of its domains); it appears across 47 TLDs in total.