Free.fr mailbox provider

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Free.fr is the mailbox provider for 7 domains — 0.00% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Key facts

Free.fr is a French internet service provider and email infrastructure operator, serving as both a direct email provider to subscribers and as an MX record host for numerous domains. It holds a substantial position within France's email routing ecosystem, particularly for the .fr domain space.

The strong prevalence of Free.fr MX records among high-traffic and enterprise-class websites indicates that senders targeting French audiences or France-based recipients must maintain strong authentication practices, sender reputation, and compliance postures to ensure reliable delivery to Free.fr-hosted mailboxes.

Where Free.fr sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,000114.3%
Top 10,00000.0%
Top 100,000342.9%
Top 1,000,000342.9%
Unranked00.0%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.fr571.4%
.com114.3%
.net114.3%

French market concentration and deliverability testing

Free.fr's prominence across enterprise and high-traffic domains in the .fr space makes it a critical checkpoint for email campaigns targeting France. Senders should include Free.fr mailboxes in their regular authentication testing (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and reputation monitoring workflows, as delivery performance to Free.fr addresses often mirrors broader success within the French email market.

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Frequently asked questions

Should I test email campaigns against Free.fr addresses?

Yes—given Free.fr's concentration among high-traffic and enterprise-level sites in France, testing authentication and delivery against Free.fr mailboxes is a sound indicator of your sender reputation within the French email market.

How many domains use Free.fr?

7 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Free.fr as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.00% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is Free.fr common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

Free.fr accounts for 0.00% 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 Free.fr most?

Free.fr's largest TLD is .fr (71.4% of its domains); it appears across 3 TLDs in total.

Other mailbox providers

Self-Hosted (22.44%)Google Workspace (21.79%)Microsoft 365 (16.74%)Unknown / Other (7.54%)Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.57%)Proofpoint (1.90%)Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.75%)Yandex 360 (1.64%)Cloudflare Email Routing (1.60%)Mimecast (1.52%)