According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), MXroute is the mailbox provider for 61 domains — 0.01% of 658,108 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
MXroute is an email hosting provider that operates mail servers for domains across the internet. Operating as a smaller, independent email infrastructure service, it appears as the primary mail exchanger on smaller websites and independent organisations rather than among the world's largest brands.
For email practitioners, MXroute's footprint—concentrated in the long tail of smaller sites but globally distributed—means it represents a significant slice of the "general internet" recipient base. Senders testing against a diverse set of mail servers, and administrators of smaller organisations choosing mail infrastructure, will encounter MXroute regularly. Its prevalence alongside managed email services like MailerSend suggests it appeals to site owners who prefer independent email control without operating their own mail server software.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 6 | 9.8% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 42 | 68.9% |
| Unranked | 13 | 21.3% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 24 | 39.3% | |
| .ru | 15 | 24.6% | |
| .net | 6 | 9.8% | |
| .org | 5 | 8.2% | |
| .xn--p1ai | 3 | 4.9% | |
| .io | 2 | 3.3% | |
| .co | 1 | 1.6% | |
| .ca | 1 | 1.6% | |
| .it | 1 | 1.6% | |
| .mx | 1 | 1.6% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 61 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of MXroute users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | SolarWinds MailLogin | 4 | 6.6% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 3 | 4.9% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 2 | 3.3% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 2 | 3.3% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 1 | 1.6% |
| ESP | MailChannels | 1 | 1.6% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 1 | 1.6% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 1 | 1.6% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 1 | 1.6% |
MXroute's position as a long-tail mail provider means it should not be overlooked in filter testing or reputation assessment. Because it serves smaller sites rather than enterprises, the volume of mail it handles is distributed across many small senders rather than concentrated among large brands—a pattern that affects both how senders' reputations accumulate and how filtering decisions are made. For organisations checking deliverability across a representative cross-section of the internet's mail infrastructure, treating MXroute as a segment of that ecosystem is more realistic than focusing only on the largest consolidated mail providers.
See the full MXroute data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
Yes, if your recipients include small-to-medium organisations. MXroute's footprint in the long tail means it represents a genuine portion of production mail delivery; however, its filtering and reputation practices differ from major cloud providers, so combine MXroute results with tests against larger providers for a complete picture.
61 domains in the Tranco top-1M use MXroute as their mailbox provider as of July 12, 2026 (0.01% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
MXroute accounts for 0.01% 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.
MXroute's largest TLD is .com (39.3% of its domains); it appears across 12 TLDs in total.