Hornetsecurity email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 11, 2026), Hornetsecurity is the email service provider (ESP) for 1,707 domains — 0.27% of 631,089 SPF-publishing domains. Its strongest TLD is .de (39.8% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Last updated from the 2026-09-11 DNS snapshot.

1,707domains
0.27%of SPF-publishing domains
87distinct TLDs
2026-09-11snapshot (updated daily)

What Hornetsecurity represents in this dataset

German cloud email security (Vade group).

Directory category: Gateway. 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 2026-09-11 snapshot shows about Hornetsecurity

Across 87 distinct TLDs its top three are .de (39.8%), .com (26.8%), .fr (7.6%) — together 74.1% of the 1,707 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 Hornetsecurity (Mailbox, 1,175 domains, 68.8% of them), followed by Microsoft 365 (10.1%). 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 (2026-09-11); 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 Hornetsecurity

What else the same 1,707 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-11).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Hornetsecurity users
MailboxHornetsecurity1,17568.8%
MailboxMicrosoft 36517310.1%
MailboxHornetsecurity (AntispamEurope)1398.1%
MailboxUnknown / Other704.1%
MailboxGoogle Workspace331.9%
MailboxSelf-Hosted241.4%
ESPMailjet (Sinch)18010.5%
ESPAmazon SES1448.4%
ESPBrevo (ex-Sendinblue)1146.7%
ESPConstant Contact1096.4%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 87)

de — 679 (39.8%)
com — 457 (26.8%)
fr — 129 (7.6%)
at — 43 (2.5%)
net — 41 (2.4%)
ch — 37 (2.2%)
co.uk — 37 (2.2%)
org — 36 (2.1%)
es — 30 (1.8%)
eu — 19 (1.1%)
ca — 15 (0.9%)
nl — 12 (0.7%)
info — 7 (0.4%)
org.uk — 7 (0.4%)
it — 7 (0.4%)
com.mx — 7 (0.4%)
mx — 6 (0.4%)
co — 6 (0.4%)
cz — 6 (0.4%)
cat — 6 (0.4%)
ie — 6 (0.4%)
si — 6 (0.4%)
hr — 5 (0.3%)
pt — 5 (0.3%)
se — 5 (0.3%)
pl — 4 (0.2%)
tv — 4 (0.2%)
cloud — 4 (0.2%)
hu — 3 (0.2%)
be — 3 (0.2%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Hornetsecurity?

1,707 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Hornetsecurity as their email service provider (ESP) as of September 11, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Hornetsecurity's market share?

Hornetsecurity holds 0.27% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-11). The number is recomputed every day.

What are the biggest alternatives to Hornetsecurity?

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 2026-09-11).

Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category

Amazon SES (6.17%) · SendGrid (Twilio) (4.63%) · Mailgun (4.00%) · Zendesk (3.76%) · Mailchimp (3.56%) · Mandrill (3.24%) · HubSpot (3.10%) · Salesforce (2.54%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.12%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.93%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 1,707 domains.