WordPress.com / WP Cloud SaaS sender

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), WordPress.com / WP Cloud is the SaaS sender for 922 domains — 0.15% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Key facts

WordPress.com, operated by Automattic, is a managed hosting and site-building platform that sends transactional and administrative email on behalf of customer domains. The service uses shared email infrastructure, making its presence visible in domain SPF records via include mechanisms that authorise WordPress.com's mail servers to send on those domains' behalf.

WordPress.com's footprint across the web is concentrated in the .com namespace and skews toward smaller sites and independent publishers rather than large enterprises—it appears frequently in SPF configurations alongside Google Workspace. For email professionals, this market position means that understanding WordPress.com's sender reputation and shared infrastructure is useful when assessing deliverability for domains relying on it, particularly in mixed-hosting environments.

Where WordPress.com / WP Cloud sits in the Tranco ranking

Tranco rank bandDomainsShare of its base
Top 1,00010.1%
Top 10,00040.4%
Top 100,000758.1%
Top 1,000,00072478.5%
Unranked11812.8%

Top-level domain split

TLDDomainsShare
.com56961.7%
.org11412.4%
.net303.3%
.com.br192.1%
.in141.5%
.ca121.3%
.blog91.0%
.ai91.0%
.io80.9%
.jp80.9%

What WordPress.com / WP Cloud users also use

Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 922 domains.

TypeServiceDomainsShare of WordPress.com / WP Cloud users
MailboxGoogle Workspace38441.6%
MailboxMicrosoft 36510511.4%
MailboxUnknown / Other657.0%
MailboxTitan (Hostinger)485.2%
MailboxZoho Mail161.7%
MailboxSelf-Hosted161.7%

Shared infrastructure and sender reputation implications

WordPress.com hosts many customer domains on shared IP pools, meaning individual domain reputation is partly shaped by the sending behaviour of other sites on the same infrastructure. A deliverability problem affecting another WordPress.com-hosted site can influence how receiving mail servers treat unrelated domains on the platform—a consideration of particular relevance for smaller sites without access to dedicated sending addresses or advanced reputation-management capabilities.

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Frequently asked questions

Why does WordPress.com appear in my domain's SPF record?

WordPress.com's SPF include is added when you use their hosted platform or email services. It authorises WordPress.com's mail servers to send email on your domain's behalf.

How many domains use WordPress.com / WP Cloud?

922 domains in the Tranco top-1M use WordPress.com / WP Cloud as their SaaS sender as of July 13, 2026 (0.15% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

Is WordPress.com / WP Cloud common enough to affect email deliverability testing?

WordPress.com / WP Cloud accounts for 0.15% 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.

Is WordPress.com / WP Cloud growing or declining?

WordPress.com / WP Cloud has been stable — its share moved +0.01 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 13, 2026).

Which countries or TLDs use WordPress.com / WP Cloud most?

WordPress.com / WP Cloud's largest TLD is .com (61.7% of its domains); it appears across 73 TLDs in total.

Other SaaS senders

Shopify (0.87%)Pardot (Salesforce) (0.79%)CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 (0.71%)KnowBe4 (0.56%)Statuspage (Atlassian) (0.34%)Trustpilot (0.30%)Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) (0.30%)Firebase (Google) (0.29%)BigCommerce (0.22%)Lark / Feishu (0.21%)