According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Nameshield is the mailbox provider for 48 domains — 0.01% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Nameshield is a mailbox provider that operates as the primary mail-exchange service for many websites, particularly across European domains and those in the .fr TLD. Its footprint is concentrated in France and French-speaking regions, though it serves customers internationally.
Because Nameshield hosts a long tail of smaller domains rather than major consumer or enterprise brands, it represents a segment often absent from mainstream mailbox-provider testing. If your sending programme targets European SMBs or French-language organisations, your mail will frequently pass through Nameshield's infrastructure, making it worthwhile to include in your authentication and reputation checks. Similarly, inbound mail from those regions may originate from Nameshield-hosted domains.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 4 | 8.3% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 35 | 72.9% |
| Unranked | 9 | 18.8% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .fr | 18 | 37.5% | |
| .com | 5 | 10.4% | |
| .it | 5 | 10.4% | |
| .ca | 2 | 4.2% | |
| .be | 2 | 4.2% | |
| .in | 2 | 4.2% | |
| .re | 1 | 2.1% | |
| .pt | 1 | 2.1% | |
| .gr | 1 | 2.1% | |
| .es | 1 | 2.1% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 48 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Nameshield users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Zendesk | 7 | 14.6% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 7 | 14.6% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 5 | 10.4% |
| ESP | Salesforce | 3 | 6.2% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 2 | 4.2% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 2 | 4.2% |
| ESP | Proofpoint | 1 | 2.1% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 1 | 2.1% |
| ESP | Carts Guru | 1 | 2.1% |
| ESP | SparkPost | 1 | 2.1% |
Nameshield's footprint skews toward smaller websites and regional operators rather than multinational corporations, which means it provides a useful signal for deliverability testing that reaches beyond the largest ISPs and consumer platforms. If your recipient base includes European SMBs or businesses in French-speaking markets, Nameshield-hosted domains constitute a non-trivial share of your total volume; including such domains in your test matrix reveals whether your authentication standards and sender reputation practices work across that segment.
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Yes, if your audience includes European businesses or French-language organisations. Nameshield hosts a meaningful segment of smaller European domains, and testing against it reveals whether your authentication and reputation practices work for regional and SMB-focused recipients.
48 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Nameshield as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.01% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Nameshield 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.
Nameshield's largest TLD is .fr (37.5% of its domains); it appears across 20 TLDs in total.