MessageGears email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), MessageGears is the email service provider (ESP) for 472 domains — 0.07% of 637,420 SPF-publishing domains. Its strongest TLD is .com (44.9% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Last updated from the 2026-09-24 DNS snapshot.
What MessageGears represents in this dataset
Enterprise on-premise/hybrid email engine.
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 2026-09-24 snapshot shows about MessageGears
Across 50 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (44.9%), .org (11.0%), .edu (10.0%) — together 65.9% of the 472 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Microsoft 365 (Mailbox, 275 domains, 58.3% of them), followed by Google Workspace (9.7%). 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 (2026-09-24); 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 MessageGears
What else the same 472 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-24).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of MessageGears users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 275 | 58.3% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 46 | 9.7% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 40 | 8.5% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 22 | 4.7% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 20 | 4.2% |
| Mailbox | Barracuda | 14 | 3.0% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 74 | 15.7% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 69 | 14.6% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 54 | 11.4% |
| ESP | Mimecast | 43 | 9.1% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 50)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use MessageGears?
472 domains in the Tranco top-1M use MessageGears as their email service provider (ESP) as of September 24, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is MessageGears's market share?
MessageGears holds 0.07% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-24). The number is recomputed every day.
What are the biggest alternatives to MessageGears?
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 2026-09-24).
Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category
Amazon SES (6.23%) · SendGrid (Twilio) (4.68%) · Mailgun (4.01%) · Zendesk (3.77%) · Mailchimp (3.61%) · Mandrill (3.26%) · HubSpot (3.18%) · Salesforce (2.57%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.14%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.96%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 472 domains.