Alibaba DirectMail email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 12, 2026), Alibaba DirectMail is the email service provider (ESP) for 284 domains — 0.05% of 629,828 SPF-publishing domains. Its strongest TLD is .com (60.2% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Last updated from the 2026-09-12 DNS snapshot.
What Alibaba DirectMail represents in this dataset
Alibaba Cloud DirectMail (DM) transactional/marketing email (CN+APAC).
Directory category: Esp. The classification comes from include: mechanisms in the SPF record. It describes observed DNS infrastructure, not a commercial relationship and not the placement of any individual message.
What the 2026-09-12 snapshot shows about Alibaba DirectMail
Across 28 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (60.2%), .cn (10.9%), .net (7.0%) — together 78.2% of the 284 domains, which makes the footprint narrow — three TLDs cover most of it, which is typical of a regional or single-market operator. The service most often observed on the same domains is Alibaba Cloud (Mailbox, 132 domains, 46.5% of them), followed by Alibaba Mail (China) (9.2%). Directly comparable by the same detection rule: Amazon SES, SendGrid (Twilio), Mailgun. Ranking between them reflects what is published in DNS, not delivery quality or volume sent. All figures come from a single daily DNS snapshot (2026-09-12); a domain appears here when its published records match the include: mechanisms in the SPF record rule, which is an infrastructure fact, not a commercial relationship.
Commonly used together with Alibaba DirectMail
What else the same 284 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-12).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba DirectMail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Alibaba Cloud | 132 | 46.5% |
| Mailbox | Alibaba Mail (China) | 26 | 9.2% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 19 | 6.7% |
| Mailbox | Alibaba Mail | 19 | 6.7% |
| Mailbox | QQ Mail (Tencent) | 15 | 5.3% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 9 | 3.2% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 11 | 3.9% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 7 | 2.5% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 7 | 2.5% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) | 6 | 2.1% |
TLD distribution (top 28 of 28)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Alibaba DirectMail?
284 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba DirectMail as their email service provider (ESP) as of September 12, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Alibaba DirectMail's market share?
Alibaba DirectMail holds 0.05% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-12). The number is recomputed every day.
What are the biggest alternatives to Alibaba DirectMail?
The largest email service provider (ESP)s in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: Amazon SES, SendGrid (Twilio), Mailgun, Zendesk, Mailchimp (as of 2026-09-12).
Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category
Amazon SES (6.18%) · SendGrid (Twilio) (4.63%) · Mailgun (4.01%) · Zendesk (3.76%) · Mailchimp (3.57%) · Mandrill (3.25%) · HubSpot (3.11%) · Salesforce (2.55%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.12%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.94%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 284 domains.