According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Cloud DNS is the mailbox provider for 152 domains — 0.02% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Cloud DNS is Google Cloud's managed DNS hosting service that allows organisations to host their DNS records, including MX records for mail routing, within Google's infrastructure.
The presence of Cloud DNS in email infrastructure reveals a pattern of smaller and mid-market sites adopting cloud-native architecture, typically pairing it with Amazon SES for message delivery. This reflects modern deployments that favour managed services over legacy systems, generally supporting reliable email delivery through reputable, well-maintained infrastructure.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 15 | 9.9% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 127 | 83.6% |
| Unranked | 10 | 6.6% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 30 | 19.7% | |
| .de | 5 | 3.3% | |
| .net | 5 | 3.3% | |
| .cc | 4 | 2.6% | |
| .ro | 4 | 2.6% | |
| .it | 3 | 2.0% | |
| .cz | 3 | 2.0% | |
| .sk | 3 | 2.0% | |
| .es | 3 | 2.0% | |
| .gr | 3 | 2.0% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 152 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Cloud DNS users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Amazon SES | 47 | 30.9% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 32 | 21.1% |
| ESP | SparkPost | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Cloudflare Email Routing | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | StackMail | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | emailsys (artegic, DE) | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 1 | 0.7% |
Sites using Cloud DNS for DNS hosting often rely on Amazon SES for the actual message delivery, forming a common architecture amongst smaller deployments and technology-driven organisations. This pairing represents a stable, scalable approach to email infrastructure: Cloud DNS provides reliable record management and propagation, whilst SES handles sending and reputation tracking. For anyone evaluating sender reputation or deliverability risk, sites combining these services are generally lower-risk targets, as both represent maintained, monitored systems with strong abuse prevention.
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Cloud DNS is DNS infrastructure only and does not directly impact deliverability; it simply hosts the MX records that point to your actual mail servers. Sites combining Cloud DNS with Amazon SES represent a reliable modern architecture unlikely to cause deliverability problems.
152 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Cloud DNS as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.02% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Cloud DNS accounts for 0.02% 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.
Cloud DNS's largest TLD is .com (19.7% of its domains); it appears across 66 TLDs in total.