Purelymail mailbox provider
According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 20, 2026), Purelymail is the mailbox provider for 257 domains — 0.04% of 676,114 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Key facts
- 257 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Purelymail (0.04% of domains with MX records).
- Snapshot date: 2026-09-20 — recomputed every day.
- Strongest TLD: .com (37.0% of its domains).
- Region skew: Global / US-skewed.
- Most co-used service: Amazon SES.
- Directory category: mailbox provider.
Why Purelymail appears in this category
Lean low-cost US IMAP host — popular with hobbyists.
We classify it as a mailbox provider from primary MX record (lowest preference) matching a maintained provider rule. This is infrastructure attribution from public DNS, not evidence of a direct contract or exclusive use.
Purelymail is a mailbox provider offering email hosting and domain forwarding services to smaller organisations and individuals. Its technical footprint reflects this position: it appears predominantly on long-tail sites rather than major brands, spread across multiple top-level domains worldwide with concentration in .com registrations.
For senders and infrastructure operators, Purelymail's presence signals a lean, internationally distributed email ecosystem. Its frequent co-occurrence with Amazon SES suggests it often serves as a secondary or backup MX in smaller deployments, which has implications for how recipients' systems prioritise and filter incoming mail.
Where Purelymail sits in the Tranco ranking
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 2 | 0.8% |
| Top 100,000 | 26 | 10.1% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 227 | 88.3% |
| Unranked | 2 | 0.8% |
Top-level domain split
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 95 | 37.0% | |
| .net | 25 | 9.7% | |
| .org | 10 | 3.9% | |
| .io | 10 | 3.9% | |
| .dev | 8 | 3.1% | |
| .app | 5 | 1.9% | |
| .co | 5 | 1.9% | |
| .co.uk | 4 | 1.6% | |
| .me | 4 | 1.6% | |
| .pro | 4 | 1.6% |
What Purelymail users also use
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 257 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Purelymail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Amazon SES | 9 | 3.5% |
| ESP | Cloudflare Email Routing | 7 | 2.7% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 5 | 1.9% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 4 | 1.6% |
| ESP | Scaleway TEM | 2 | 0.8% |
| ESP | YMLP | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | Zoho Mail EU (sender) | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | Porkbun | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | SendPulse | 1 | 0.4% |
Secondary MX and long-tail deployment patterns
Purelymail typically appears as a secondary or fallback MX in infrastructure stacks built for smaller organisations and niche services. For senders evaluating deliverability, this positioning matters: Purelymail is uncommon on high-volume corporate domains but more likely to appear when testing against community platforms, smaller SaaS providers, or organisations running minimal email infrastructure. Understanding this distribution helps senders distinguish between enterprise-class mailbox providers and commodity-oriented providers, which often have distinct reputation thresholds, filtering behaviour, and acceptance policies.
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Frequently asked questions
Should I test email deliverability against Purelymail?
If your target audience includes smaller organisations and niche communities, testing against Purelymail can reveal edge cases in acceptance policies and filtering behaviour. It ranks as lower priority than major enterprise providers given its concentration in the long tail of the web.
How many domains use Purelymail?
257 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Purelymail as their mailbox provider as of September 20, 2026 (0.04% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Is Purelymail common enough to affect email deliverability testing?
Purelymail accounts for 0.04% 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.
Which countries or TLDs use Purelymail most?
Purelymail's largest TLD is .com (37.0% of its domains); it appears across 74 TLDs in total.