According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Mail.ru for Business is the mailbox provider for 3,517 domains — 0.53% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Mail.ru for Business is a mailbox hosting service operated by Mail.ru Group, a Russian internet company. It provides email and collaboration tools for small to medium-sized organisations, primarily within the Russian market and Russian-speaking regions.
Email infrastructure surveys show Mail.ru for Business holding primary MX records chiefly among smaller websites in the .ru domain space, with heavy geographic concentration in Russia. Its market position has been contracting. For senders and administrators, this means Mail.ru for Business is a secondary provider to account for when targeting Russian or regionally-focused organisations, but it is unlikely to be a primary focus for globally-oriented deliverability strategies.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 8 | 0.2% |
| Top 10,000 | 23 | 0.7% |
| Top 100,000 | 300 | 8.5% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 2,649 | 75.3% |
| Unranked | 537 | 15.3% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .ru | 2,322 | 66.0% | |
| .com | 331 | 9.4% | |
| .kz | 113 | 3.2% | |
| .net | 80 | 2.3% | |
| .by | 68 | 1.9% | |
| .su | 58 | 1.6% | |
| .pro | 57 | 1.6% | |
| .online | 28 | 0.8% | |
| .uz | 26 | 0.7% | |
| .org | 21 | 0.6% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 3,517 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Mail.ru for Business users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Unisender (RU) | 387 | 11.0% |
| ESP | SendPulse | 115 | 3.3% |
| ESP | SMTP.BZ | 101 | 2.9% |
| ESP | DashaMail (RU) | 73 | 2.1% |
| ESP | UniSender | 53 | 1.5% |
| ESP | Sendsay | 50 | 1.4% |
| ESP | Send-Box | 44 | 1.3% |
| ESP | Mindbox | 42 | 1.2% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 38 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 33 | 0.9% |
Because Mail.ru for Business is concentrated in the Russian market and Russian-speaking regions, mail systems sending into this provider need to account for regional infrastructure and policy variations that may differ from global email standards. The provider's acceptance criteria, rate limiting, and authentication requirements reflect Russian business practices and regulatory environment. Organisations targeting Russian customers or partners should verify Mail.ru for Business policies independently rather than assume alignment with Western-based provider norms.
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If your audience includes Russian businesses or Russian-speaking regions, yes. However, because Mail.ru for Business serves a regional and smaller-site footprint, it is typically a secondary consideration after testing against larger global providers.
3,517 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Mail.ru for Business as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.53% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Mail.ru for Business accounts for 0.53% 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.
Mail.ru for Business is declining — its share moved -0.04 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 13, 2026).
Mail.ru for Business's largest TLD is .ru (66.0% of its domains); it appears across 134 TLDs in total.