QQ Mail (Tencent) mailbox provider

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), QQ Mail (Tencent) is the mailbox provider for 5,498 domains — 0.83% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Key facts

QQ Mail is Tencent's email service, providing both webmail access and mail server infrastructure for domain operators. Tencent is a major technology conglomerate based in China.

In email infrastructure detection, QQ Mail appears primarily as the MX record for smaller and mid-sized domains concentrated in the .com space, rather than major brands. Its frequent co-occurrence with Mailgun indicates adoption in outsourced, cost-conscious email stacks, and recent growth suggests expanding reach beyond its traditional regional base.

Where QQ Mail (Tencent) sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00070.1%
Top 10,000420.8%
Top 100,0005219.5%
Top 1,000,0003,56464.8%
Unranked1,36424.8%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com3,38961.6%
.cn1,23222.4%
.net2634.8%
.com.cn2344.3%
.org581.1%
.cc390.7%
.ai240.4%
.me220.4%
.tv170.3%
.top150.3%

What QQ Mail (Tencent) users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 5,498 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of QQ Mail (Tencent) users
ESPMailgun591.1%
ESPAmazon SES390.7%
ESPZendesk380.7%
ESPSendCloud (China)170.3%
ESPAlibaba DirectMail140.3%
ESPMailerSend120.2%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)110.2%
ESPMandrill100.2%
ESPMailchimp90.2%
ESPSalesforce Marketing Cloud70.1%

QQ Mail and outsourced email infrastructure

QQ Mail frequently appears on domains that also employ third-party services like Mailgun for email sending, a pattern reflecting its role in cost-optimised, outsourced email operations rather than in-house infrastructure. This correlation is relevant for senders because it indicates the organisational contexts likely to be using QQ Mail—smaller to mid-market operators—and correlates with how those organisations approach email configuration and reputation management across provider boundaries.

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Frequently asked questions

Is QQ Mail important for email deliverability testing?

If your recipient list includes smaller or mid-market domains, QQ Mail is worth testing against. It is increasingly common in cost-optimised email infrastructures that outsource delivery via platforms like Mailgun.

How many domains use QQ Mail (Tencent)?

5,498 domains in the Tranco top-1M use QQ Mail (Tencent) as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.83% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is QQ Mail (Tencent) common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

QQ Mail (Tencent) accounts for 0.83% 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.

Is QQ Mail (Tencent) growing or declining?

QQ Mail (Tencent) is growing — its share moved +0.04 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 13, 2026).

Which countries or TLDs use QQ Mail (Tencent) most?

QQ Mail (Tencent)'s largest TLD is .com (61.6% of its domains); it appears across 84 TLDs in total.

Other mailbox providers

Self-Hosted (22.44%)Google Workspace (21.79%)Microsoft 365 (16.74%)Unknown / Other (7.54%)Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.57%)Proofpoint (1.90%)Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.75%)Yandex 360 (1.64%)Cloudflare Email Routing (1.60%)Mimecast (1.52%)