Locaweb (BR) mailbox provider

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Locaweb (BR) is the mailbox provider for 890 domains — 0.14% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Key facts

Locaweb is a Brazilian web hosting and email services provider that operates email infrastructure across the .com.br domain space and serves regional Brazilian businesses. The company provides shared and managed email hosting to smaller and mid-sized enterprises rather than serving as a destination for global brand communications.

When a recipient domain's MX records point to Locaweb, it indicates a regionally focused business in the Brazilian market. This concentration makes understanding Locaweb's authentication requirements, filtering policies, and reputation handling directly relevant to anyone maintaining sender reputation in Brazil or managing campaigns targeting Brazilian recipients — and less critical for global-audience senders with minimal Brazilian engagement.

Where Locaweb (BR) sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00000.0%
Top 10,00010.1%
Top 100,000293.3%
Top 1,000,00066174.3%
Unranked19922.4%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com.br71980.8%
.br859.6%
.com627.0%
.net70.8%
.online40.4%
.ws30.3%
.org20.2%
.ba10.1%
.place10.1%
.biz10.1%

What Locaweb (BR) users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 890 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Locaweb (BR) users
ESPLocaweb (BR)81291.2%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)9010.1%
ESPRD Station (BR)728.1%
ESPAmazon SES606.7%
ESPAll-In Mail171.9%
ESPKMITD (TH)151.7%
ESPedrone141.6%
ESPDitoMail141.6%
ESPMandrill141.6%
ESPElastic Email131.5%

Shared-hosting authentication practices and sender reputation

Locaweb hosts email for many smaller domains on shared infrastructure, which means SPF, DKIM, and DMARC adoption varies significantly across the provider's user base. Senders should not assume that all Locaweb-hosted recipients enforce DMARC policy, and must ensure their own SPF records are properly scoped to avoid triggering filtering on shared-hosting providers. Reputation systems may handle mail from shared-hosting providers with closer scrutiny than consolidated enterprise infrastructure, making robust authentication practices and clean sending practices especially important for maintaining deliverability to Locaweb-hosted mailboxes.

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Frequently asked questions

Should I test my email against Locaweb before sending campaigns to Brazil?

If your recipients include Brazilian mail users, testing against a Locaweb-hosted inbox is worthwhile — it represents a substantial portion of the Brazilian mailbox-provider landscape. For non-Brazil-focused campaigns, Locaweb is a lower priority.

How many domains use Locaweb (BR)?

890 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Locaweb (BR) as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.14% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is Locaweb (BR) common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

Locaweb (BR) accounts for 0.14% 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 Locaweb (BR) most?

Locaweb (BR)'s largest TLD is .com.br (80.8% of its domains); it appears across 15 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%)