Forward Email email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 12, 2026), Forward Email is the email service provider (ESP) for 343 domains — 0.05% of 629,828 SPF-publishing domains. Its strongest TLD is .com (51.9% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Last updated from the 2026-09-12 DNS snapshot.
What Forward Email represents in this dataset
Forward Email — open-source email forwarding service.
Directory category: Forwarder. 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 Forward Email
Across 51 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (51.9%), .org (15.5%), .net (9.6%) — together 77.0% of the 343 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 Forward Email (Mailbox, 211 domains, 61.5% of them), followed by Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (30.0%). 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 Forward Email
What else the same 343 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-12).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Forward Email users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Forward Email | 211 | 61.5% |
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) | 103 | 30.0% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 12 | 3.5% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 5 | 1.5% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 3 | 0.9% |
| Mailbox | Amazon SES (inbound) | 1 | 0.3% |
| ESP | Freshdesk | 101 | 29.4% |
| ESP | Postmark | 79 | 23.0% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 27 | 7.9% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 21 | 6.1% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 51)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Forward Email?
343 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Forward Email as their email service provider (ESP) as of September 12, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Forward Email's market share?
Forward Email 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 Forward Email?
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 343 domains.