According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Namecheap Email Forwarding is the mailbox provider for 6,916 domains — 1.05% of 658,108 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Namecheap Email Forwarding is a mail-forwarding service operated by Namecheap, a domain registrar and hosting provider. It enables domain owners to forward incoming mail from their domain's MX record to one or more external mailboxes—such as Gmail, Outlook, or custom mail servers—without hosting mail infrastructure themselves.
Across the Tranco top-1M list, Namecheap Forwarding appears predominantly in the long tail of smaller sites, concentrated in the .com namespace and skewed toward US and global small-to-medium enterprises. For senders, this means a distributed, decentralised MX landscape rather than the consolidated mailbox populations at major brands. For receivers, final-hop deliverability depends on the upstream mailbox provider (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) rather than on Namecheap itself, making it essential to verify that sender authentication is correctly configured for the forwarded domain.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 27 | 0.4% |
| Top 100,000 | 674 | 9.7% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 3,765 | 54.4% |
| Unranked | 2,450 | 35.4% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 3,494 | 50.5% | |
| .net | 399 | 5.8% | |
| .org | 272 | 3.9% | |
| .xyz | 202 | 2.9% | |
| .online | 176 | 2.5% | |
| .site | 168 | 2.4% | |
| .io | 127 | 1.8% | |
| .shop | 116 | 1.7% | |
| .info | 103 | 1.5% | |
| .store | 83 | 1.2% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 6,916 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Namecheap Email Forwarding users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Namecheap Forwarding | 6,426 | 92.9% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 19 | 0.3% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 15 | 0.2% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 10 | 0.1% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 8 | 0.1% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 8 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 7 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Wild West Domains Forwarder | 4 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 4 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 4 | 0.1% |
Forwarding services do not modify the original message's SPF record or DKIM signature, so alignment for those mechanisms is typically preserved. However, DMARC policies that require strict alignment can fail if the mail passes through multiple MTAs or if the forwarded domain's DMARC record is not consulted by the upstream mailbox provider. Since the final filtering and inboxing decision rests with the upstream provider (not Namecheap), senders should ensure that their SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records are correctly published and should test deliverability against the actual mailbox providers where forwarded mail terminates, not against Namecheap's infrastructure.
See the full Namecheap Email Forwarding data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
Testing against a forwarded address is useful for checking that forwarding itself works, but it does not replicate the filtering behaviour of the final mailbox provider (Gmail, Outlook, etc.). For accurate deliverability testing, test against the actual upstream mailbox provider.
6,916 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Namecheap Email Forwarding as their mailbox provider as of July 12, 2026 (1.05% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Namecheap Email Forwarding accounts for 1.05% 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.
Namecheap Email Forwarding has been stable — its share moved -0.01 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 12, 2026).
Namecheap Email Forwarding's largest TLD is .com (50.5% of its domains); it appears across 230 TLDs in total.