WordPress.com Email Forwarding mailbox provider
According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), WordPress.com Email Forwarding is the mailbox provider for 93 domains — 0.01% of 675,489 domains with MX records. Detection method: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Key facts
- 93 domains in the Tranco top-1M use WordPress.com Email Forwarding (0.01% of domains with MX records).
- Snapshot date: 2026-09-24 — recomputed every day.
- Strongest TLD: .com (68.8% of its domains).
- Region skew: Global / US-skewed.
- Most co-used service: Elastic Email.
- Directory category: email forwarding service.
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
93.5% of its domains sit outside the top 100,000 — a long-tail footprint spread across smaller sites. Its single largest TLD is .com at 68.8% of its domains — a strong concentration across 13 TLDs overall. The service most often seen alongside it is Elastic Email (ESP), on 1.1% of its domains.
Where WordPress.com Email Forwarding sits in the Tranco ranking
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 4 | 4.3% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 87 | 93.5% |
| Unranked | 2 | 2.2% |
Top-level domain split
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 64 | 68.8% | |
| .org | 12 | 12.9% | |
| .net | 3 | 3.2% | |
| .blog | 3 | 3.2% | |
| .com.br | 2 | 2.2% | |
| .info | 2 | 2.2% | |
| .live | 1 | 1.1% | |
| .ca | 1 | 1.1% | |
| .sg | 1 | 1.1% | |
| .in | 1 | 1.1% |
What WordPress.com Email Forwarding users also use
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 93 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of WordPress.com Email Forwarding users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Elastic Email | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | FeedBlitz | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Namecheap Forwarding | 1 | 1.1% |
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Frequently asked questions
How many domains use WordPress.com Email Forwarding?
93 domains in the Tranco top-1M use WordPress.com Email Forwarding as their mailbox provider as of September 24, 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 (68.8% of its domains); it appears across 13 TLDs in total.