FastMail mailbox provider
According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 12, 2026), FastMail is the mailbox provider for 1,686 domains — 0.25% of 665,310 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Key facts
- 1,686 domains in the Tranco top-1M use FastMail (0.25% of domains with MX records).
- Snapshot date: 2026-09-12 — recomputed every day.
- Strongest TLD: .com (44.1% of its domains).
- Region skew: Global / US-skewed.
- Most co-used service: Amazon SES.
- Directory category: mailbox provider.
Why FastMail appears in this category
Australian privacy-focused IMAP/JMAP host. Powers Topicbox, custom domains.
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.
FastMail is a paid email hosting and mailbox provider operated independently as a commercial service. Unlike free consumer email providers, it serves organisations seeking a hosted mailbox solution with privacy and independence from platform surveillance.
When surveyed across large website populations, FastMail appears most often among smaller and mid-market sites, concentrated in the .com namespace, and with stronger adoption in global and US regions. It is frequently found alongside Amazon SES deployments, where organisations use SES to send outbound mail and FastMail to host their operational inboxes. This pattern means that anyone testing email deliverability, especially in the SES ecosystem, will benefit from understanding how their authentication and reputation perform against FastMail recipients.
Where FastMail sits in the Tranco ranking
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 1 | 0.1% |
| Top 10,000 | 22 | 1.3% |
| Top 100,000 | 214 | 12.7% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 1,438 | 85.3% |
| Unranked | 11 | 0.7% |
Top-level domain split
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 743 | 44.1% | |
| .org | 183 | 10.9% | |
| .net | 170 | 10.1% | |
| .io | 69 | 4.1% | |
| .me | 30 | 1.8% | |
| .tv | 23 | 1.4% | |
| .co | 21 | 1.2% | |
| .dev | 21 | 1.2% | |
| .co.uk | 20 | 1.2% | |
| .app | 19 | 1.1% |
What FastMail users also use
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 1,686 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of FastMail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Amazon SES | 105 | 6.2% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 81 | 4.8% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 47 | 2.8% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 38 | 2.3% |
| ESP | Postmark | 35 | 2.1% |
| ESP | Help Scout | 26 | 1.5% |
| ESP | MailerLite | 24 | 1.4% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 24 | 1.4% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 23 | 1.4% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 20 | 1.2% |
FastMail's role in SES-centric email architectures
The co-occurrence of FastMail with Amazon SES across smaller and mid-market deployments reveals a common operational pattern: organisations configure SES as their outbound sending engine for transactional mail, notifications, and marketing content, whilst maintaining their operational and support email on a hosted mailbox service like FastMail. This split reflects practical preferences for reliability and vendor independence. For senders, this means FastMail is an important validation point: if your DKIM, SPF, and DMARC configuration performs well with FastMail recipients, you are likely to perform well with the broader class of organisations using SES for outbound mail.
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Frequently asked questions
Should I test email deliverability against FastMail?
Yes, particularly if your audience includes small-to-medium organisations or if you deploy via Amazon SES. FastMail's prevalence in that segment—especially alongside SES—makes it a representative reference point for validating that your authentication, reputation, and sending practices function correctly across hosted mailbox providers.
How many domains use FastMail?
1,686 domains in the Tranco top-1M use FastMail as their mailbox provider as of September 12, 2026 (0.25% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Is FastMail common enough to affect email deliverability testing?
FastMail accounts for 0.25% 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 FastMail most?
FastMail's largest TLD is .com (44.1% of its domains); it appears across 171 TLDs in total.