According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 25, 2026), WordPress.com Email Forwarding is the mailbox provider for 95 domains — 0.01% of 671,693 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Legacy WordPress.com custom-domain email forwarding through smtp-fwd.wordpress.com.
We classify it as a email forwarding service 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.
69.5% of its domains sit outside the top 100,000 — a long-tail footprint spread across smaller sites. Its single largest TLD is .com at 68.4% of its domains — a strong concentration across 14 TLDs overall. The service most often seen alongside it is Namecheap Forwarding (ESP), on 2.1% of its domains.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 5 | 5.3% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 66 | 69.5% |
| Unranked | 24 | 25.3% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 65 | 68.4% | |
| .org | 9 | 9.5% | |
| .net | 4 | 4.2% | |
| .in | 2 | 2.1% | |
| .com.br | 2 | 2.1% | |
| .blog | 2 | 2.1% | |
| .info | 2 | 2.1% | |
| .fr | 2 | 2.1% | |
| .gg | 2 | 2.1% | |
| .jp | 1 | 1.1% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 95 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of WordPress.com Email Forwarding users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Namecheap Forwarding | 2 | 2.1% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | FeedBlitz | 1 | 1.1% |
See the full WordPress.com Email Forwarding data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
95 domains in the Tranco top-1M use WordPress.com Email Forwarding as their mailbox provider as of July 25, 2026 (0.01% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
WordPress.com Email Forwarding 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.
WordPress.com Email Forwarding's largest TLD is .com (68.4% of its domains); it appears across 14 TLDs in total.