According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), NIC.RU Mail is the mailbox provider for 410 domains — 0.06% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
NIC.RU Mail is a mailbox provider serving organisations and individuals within the Russian-language internet ecosystem, with a presence linked to NIC.RU, the entity managing the .ru domain registry. It provides email services predominantly to .ru domain holders and Russian-speaking regions.
NIC.RU Mail appears most often across smaller to medium-sized websites rather than global enterprises, concentrated within the .ru namespace and frequently found alongside Unisender, a Russian email marketing platform. For senders and infrastructure operators, this pattern indicates that NIC.RU Mail is most relevant when targeting regional Russian businesses and SMEs, and that delivery performance to this provider should be tested when such audiences form a meaningful part of the campaign target.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 21 | 5.1% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 330 | 80.5% |
| Unranked | 59 | 14.4% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .ru | 304 | 74.1% | |
| .com | 28 | 6.8% | |
| .net | 8 | 2.0% | |
| .su | 8 | 2.0% | |
| .org | 7 | 1.7% | |
| .pro | 5 | 1.2% | |
| .dev | 4 | 1.0% | |
| .xn--p1ai | 4 | 1.0% | |
| .market | 4 | 1.0% | |
| .tech | 3 | 0.7% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 410 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of NIC.RU Mail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Unisender (RU) | 34 | 8.3% |
| ESP | DashaMail (RU) | 8 | 2.0% |
| ESP | Mindbox | 8 | 2.0% |
| ESP | Sendsay | 7 | 1.7% |
| ESP | UniSender | 7 | 1.7% |
| ESP | SendPulse | 7 | 1.7% |
| ESP | MailGaner | 5 | 1.2% |
| ESP | UniOne | 4 | 1.0% |
| ESP | SMTP.BZ | 4 | 1.0% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 3 | 0.7% |
NIC.RU Mail's role within Russia's internet governance and domain infrastructure means that authentication practices, mailbox configuration, and delivery expectations may reflect regional standards and regulatory frameworks specific to .ru domains and the Russian-speaking internet. Senders conducting email campaigns targeting Russian businesses should be aware of these regional considerations and should include NIC.RU Mail in their deliverability testing if .ru or Russian-language addresses represent a material portion of their audience.
See the full NIC.RU Mail data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
If your target audience includes small to medium-sized Russian organisations or .ru domain holders, testing against NIC.RU Mail is advisable; if you are sending primarily to global non-Russian-market audiences, it is less critical unless Russia represents a strategic region for your campaigns.
410 domains in the Tranco top-1M use NIC.RU Mail as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.06% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
NIC.RU Mail accounts for 0.06% 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.
NIC.RU Mail's largest TLD is .ru (74.1% of its domains); it appears across 36 TLDs in total.