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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 26, 2026), Mailgun is the email service provider (ESP) for 25,900 domains — 4.11% of 630,738 SPF-publishing domains. Over the last 30 days its share grew by 0.03 pp, and -0.00 pp year-over-year. Its strongest TLD is .com (54.0% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.

Last updated from the 2026-07-26 DNS snapshot.

25,900domains
4.11%of SPF-publishing domains
+0.03 ppshare, 30 days
417distinct TLDs
2026-07-26snapshot (updated daily)

What Mailgun represents in this dataset

Sinch Mailgun — developer-first transactional/relay email service.

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 2026-07-26 snapshot shows about Mailgun

Across 417 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (54.0%), .org (5.5%), .co.uk (2.7%) — together 62.2% of the 25,900 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Google Workspace (Mailbox, 9,777 domains, 37.7% of them), followed by Microsoft 365 (24.8%). Its share of SPF-publishing domains moved +0.03 pp in 30 days — inside the daily noise of list rotation. Directly comparable by the same detection rule: Amazon SES, SendGrid (Twilio), Zendesk. Ranking between them reflects what is published in DNS, not delivery quality or volume sent. All figures come from a single daily DNS snapshot (2026-07-26); 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 Mailgun

What else the same 25,900 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-26).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Mailgun users
MailboxGoogle Workspace9,77737.7%
MailboxMicrosoft 3656,41424.8%
MailboxMailgun (inbound)2,1188.2%
MailboxSelf-Hosted1,5836.1%
MailboxUnknown / Other8833.4%
MailboxMimecast5462.1%
ESPAmazon SES2,5279.8%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)2,2508.7%
ESPZendesk2,2498.7%
ESPMailchimp2,2158.6%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 417)

com — 13,982 (54.0%)
org — 1,416 (5.5%)
co.uk — 705 (2.7%)
net — 655 (2.5%)
nl — 548 (2.1%)
io — 527 (2.0%)
de — 514 (2.0%)
com.au — 392 (1.5%)
com.br — 286 (1.1%)
ru — 278 (1.1%)
fr — 271 (1.0%)
co — 263 (1.0%)
it — 234 (0.9%)
ca — 231 (0.9%)
se — 185 (0.7%)
lt — 155 (0.6%)
edu — 147 (0.6%)
cz — 139 (0.5%)
ai — 135 (0.5%)
pl — 130 (0.5%)
dk — 130 (0.5%)
eu — 128 (0.5%)
be — 124 (0.5%)
no — 122 (0.5%)
in — 119 (0.5%)
org.uk — 119 (0.5%)
es — 114 (0.4%)
fi — 108 (0.4%)
app — 100 (0.4%)
gr — 93 (0.4%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Mailgun?

25,900 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Mailgun as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 26, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Mailgun's market share?

Mailgun holds 4.11% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-26). The number is recomputed every day.

Is Mailgun growing or declining?

Mailgun's share grew by 0.03 percentage points over the last 30 days (as of July 26, 2026).

What are the biggest alternatives to Mailgun?

The largest email service provider (ESP)s in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: Amazon SES, SendGrid (Twilio), Zendesk, Mailchimp, Mandrill (as of 2026-07-26).

Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category

Amazon SES (6.17%) · SendGrid (Twilio) (4.76%) · Zendesk (3.83%) · Mailchimp (3.70%) · Mandrill (3.36%) · HubSpot (3.19%) · Salesforce (2.62%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.82%) · Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) (1.45%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 25,900 domains.