According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), RENATER (FR academic) is the mailbox provider for 150 domains — 0.02% of 658,711 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
RENATER (Réseau National de Télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche) is the French academic and research network, operated by the country's Ministry of Higher Education. It provides network infrastructure and email services primarily to French universities, research institutions, and related academic organisations.
RENATER's presence in email infrastructure data reflects its tight focus on the French institutional sector—it appears predominantly in MX records for .fr academic domains rather than across unrelated commercial websites. For senders targeting French universities or researchers, recognising RENATER as a legitimate academic mail endpoint is essential; for receivers, RENATER-hosted addresses typically signal institutional affiliation, though the provider faces the same deliverability dynamics as other regional or smaller-scale mail systems.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 1 | 0.7% |
| Top 100,000 | 51 | 34.0% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 93 | 62.0% |
| Unranked | 5 | 3.3% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .fr | 146 | 97.3% | |
| .eu | 2 | 1.3% | |
| .org | 1 | 0.7% | |
| .pf | 1 | 0.7% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 150 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of RENATER (FR academic) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 32 | 21.3% |
| ESP | Tipimail (Sinch) | 16 | 10.7% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 13 | 8.7% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 10 | 6.7% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 6 | 4.0% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 2 | 1.3% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 2 | 1.3% |
| ESP | PR Newswire | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 1 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Turbo-SMTP | 1 | 0.7% |
RENATER's footprint is tightly clustered within French academic and research institutions rather than dispersed across general-purpose websites. This regional and sectoral concentration means that email from .fr academic domains with RENATER MX records carries institutional context—a signal of legitimacy for recipients but also a marker that sender authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) may follow patterns specific to the French academic sector's infrastructure policies.
See the full RENATER (FR academic) data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
If your recipients include French academic or research institutions, testing against RENATER mailboxes is worthwhile to ensure authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and content policies do not cause filtering issues; however, as a regional academic network, RENATER is not a mainstream inbox to prioritise unless you actively send to the French higher-education sector.
150 domains in the Tranco top-1M use RENATER (FR academic) as their mailbox provider as of July 13, 2026 (0.02% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
RENATER (FR academic) accounts for 0.02% 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.
RENATER (FR academic)'s largest TLD is .fr (97.3% of its domains); it appears across 4 TLDs in total.