According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Ellucian is the SaaS sender for 191 domains — 0.03% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Ellucian is a software vendor providing student information systems, enterprise resource planning platforms, and administrative tools to higher education institutions. The company's cloud services send transactional and operational emails on behalf of subscribing universities and colleges.
Ellucian appears in email infrastructure checks primarily across the higher education sector, concentrated amongst mid-market and smaller institutions rather than the largest research universities. Its footprint typically overlaps with Microsoft 365 adoption, reflecting a common pattern where institutions layer Ellucian's administrative messaging on top of their cloud email infrastructure. For anyone involved in institutional email delivery, understanding Ellucian's role in the sender reputation chain is important to optimise inbox placement.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 1 | 0.5% |
| Top 100,000 | 41 | 21.5% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 139 | 72.8% |
| Unranked | 10 | 5.2% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .edu | 166 | 86.9% | |
| .ie | 6 | 3.1% | |
| .ac.uk | 5 | 2.6% | |
| .com | 2 | 1.0% | |
| .ca | 2 | 1.0% | |
| .kw | 1 | 0.5% | |
| .az | 1 | 0.5% | |
| .org | 1 | 0.5% | |
| .au | 1 | 0.5% | |
| .bs | 1 | 0.5% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 191 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Ellucian users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 129 | 67.5% |
| Mailbox | Barracuda | 19 | 9.9% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 12 | 6.3% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 10 | 5.2% |
| Mailbox | Cisco IronPort | 6 | 3.1% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 6 | 3.1% |
Institutions using Ellucian alongside Microsoft 365 or other primary email services often maintain separate SPF includes and IP ranges for each platform. This distributed authorisation model means an institution's email reputation is no longer monolithic — administrators must monitor sending behaviour across Ellucian, M365, and any other third-party services that originate mail from the institution's domain. When troubleshooting delivery problems or conducting sender reputation audits, reviewing Ellucian's IP space in your SPF records and bounce logs is as important as auditing your primary email provider.
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Many higher education institutions send student communications, administrative notices, and transactional emails through Ellucian's platform, which is authorised via SPF includes on the institution's domain. It is one of several vendors that educational organisations layer into their email infrastructure, and understanding its role helps explain delivery and reputation signals when testing or troubleshooting institutional email.
191 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Ellucian as their SaaS sender as of July 13, 2026 (0.03% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Ellucian accounts for 0.03% 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.
Ellucian's largest TLD is .edu (86.9% of its domains); it appears across 15 TLDs in total.