According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Stripe is the SaaS sender for 31 domains — 0.01% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Stripe is a payments platform operated by Stripe Inc. that processes online transactions for businesses and also sends transactional email—receipts, invoices, payment notifications—on behalf of its merchant customers' domains. When a business uses Stripe to accept payments, the platform handles email delivery of these transaction notifications directly.
Analysis of SPF records across the Tranco top-1 million websites shows Stripe is most frequently deployed in smaller-to-mid-market organisations rather than large enterprises, distributed across many country-code and generic TLDs led by .com, and most often configured alongside Google Workspace. For email administrators and deliverability teams, this distribution pattern means Stripe is a significant third-party sender with a presence in the SPF authorisations of many smaller domains, and inbound mail systems must account for the volume of legitimate Stripe-originated payment notifications arriving from diverse merchant domains of varying reputation.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 1 | 3.2% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 5 | 16.1% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 23 | 74.2% |
| Unranked | 2 | 6.5% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 13 | 41.9% | |
| .io | 5 | 16.1% | |
| .org | 2 | 6.5% | |
| .tv | 1 | 3.2% | |
| .pl | 1 | 3.2% | |
| .co.uk | 1 | 3.2% | |
| .gg | 1 | 3.2% | |
| .town | 1 | 3.2% | |
| .org.uk | 1 | 3.2% | |
| .de | 1 | 3.2% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 31 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Stripe users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 20 | 64.5% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 6 | 19.4% |
| Mailbox | Titan (Hostinger) | 1 | 3.2% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mail.*) | 1 | 3.2% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 1 | 3.2% |
| Mailbox | Cloudflare Email Routing | 1 | 3.2% |
When a merchant domain publishes Stripe's mail servers in its SPF record, it grants Stripe the authority to send mail on that domain's behalf. This delegation means Stripe's infrastructure health and sender reputation directly affect the deliverability of payment notifications from all domains that authorise Stripe for email. If Stripe's IP space or signing certificates were compromised or misused, the impact would propagate across all merchant domains relying on Stripe for payment email. Inbound mail systems treat Stripe's presence in an SPF record as a legitimate delegation, but organisations using Stripe must ensure their SPF configuration grants Stripe the appropriate sending authority and nothing more.
See the full Stripe data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
Yes — Stripe requires explicit SPF authorisation to ensure your payment notifications and receipts pass authentication checks at downstream mail systems. Without proper SPF delegation, Stripe-sent mail from your domain risks being rejected or flagged as unauthenticated.
31 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Stripe as their SaaS sender as of July 13, 2026 (0.01% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Stripe accounts for 0.01% 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.
Stripe's largest TLD is .com (41.9% of its domains); it appears across 14 TLDs in total.