WordPress.com Email Forwarding mailbox provider

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 12, 2026), WordPress.com Email Forwarding is the mailbox provider for 92 domains — 0.01% of 665,310 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Key facts

Why WordPress.com Email Forwarding appears in this category

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.

What the data shows

94.6% of its domains sit outside the top 100,000 — a long-tail footprint spread across smaller sites. Its single largest TLD is .com at 71.7% of its domains — a strong concentration across 14 TLDs overall. The service most often seen alongside it is FeedBlitz (ESP), on 1.1% of its domains.

Where WordPress.com Email Forwarding sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00000.0%
Top 10,00000.0%
Top 100,00044.3%
Top 1,000,0008794.6%
Unranked11.1%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com6671.7%
.org99.8%
.net33.3%
.info22.2%
.com.br22.2%
.blog22.2%
.gg11.1%
.sg11.1%
.mx11.1%
.in11.1%

What WordPress.com Email Forwarding users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 92 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of WordPress.com Email Forwarding users
ESPFeedBlitz11.1%
ESPElastic Email11.1%
ESPNamecheap Forwarding11.1%
ESPZendesk11.1%

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Frequently asked questions

How many domains use WordPress.com Email Forwarding?

92 domains in the Tranco top-1M use WordPress.com Email Forwarding as their mailbox provider as of September 12, 2026 (0.01% of domains with MX records), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is WordPress.com Email Forwarding common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

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.

Which countries or TLDs use WordPress.com Email Forwarding most?

WordPress.com Email Forwarding's largest TLD is .com (71.7% of its domains); it appears across 14 TLDs in total.

Other mailbox providers

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