According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), AFAS is the SaaS sender for 651 domains — 0.11% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
AFAS is a Netherlands-based SaaS platform for email delivery. Organisations use it to send email on their own domains through AFAS's infrastructure, authorising it via an SPF include in their DNS records.
AFAS's footprint is concentrated in smaller and mid-market organisations rather than large enterprises, and is particularly prevalent in the Netherlands and adjacent regions. It is often deployed alongside Microsoft 365, suggesting organisations that combine Microsoft-hosted mail systems with external sending infrastructure. For email receivers and reputation systems, AFAS appears as a regional sending platform in the long tail of email infrastructure; its presence in an SPF record signals a sender's reliance on delegated sending capacity.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 1 | 0.2% |
| Top 10,000 | 4 | 0.6% |
| Top 100,000 | 58 | 8.9% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 535 | 82.2% |
| Unranked | 53 | 8.1% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .nl | 441 | 67.7% | |
| .com | 138 | 21.2% | |
| .be | 20 | 3.1% | |
| .eu | 16 | 2.5% | |
| .org | 12 | 1.8% | |
| .net | 3 | 0.5% | |
| .de | 3 | 0.5% | |
| .shop | 2 | 0.3% | |
| .info | 2 | 0.3% | |
| .fr | 2 | 0.3% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 651 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of AFAS users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 435 | 66.8% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 69 | 10.6% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 45 | 6.9% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 20 | 3.1% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) | 19 | 2.9% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 16 | 2.5% |
When a domain authorises AFAS to send on its behalf, that delegation appears as an SPF include in the domain's DNS record. This model allows AFAS to manage sender authentication and reputation independently, a standard architecture for third-party email platforms. For reputation systems and email operators, an AFAS include typically signals a mid-market or smaller sender, particularly in the Netherlands, that uses external infrastructure for sending workloads.
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AFAS is a Dutch email delivery platform used by mid-market and smaller organisations to send email on their own domains. It appears in SPF records because senders must authorise AFAS in their DNS to enable sending from their domain—a standard delegation model for third-party email infrastructure.
651 domains in the Tranco top-1M use AFAS as their SaaS sender as of July 12, 2026 (0.11% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
AFAS accounts for 0.11% of SPF-publishing domains 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.
AFAS has been stable — its share moved +0.01 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 12, 2026).
AFAS's largest TLD is .nl (67.7% of its domains); it appears across 22 TLDs in total.