Namecheap Forwarding email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 18, 2026), Namecheap Forwarding is the email service provider (ESP) for 7,405 domains — 1.16% of 637,944 SPF-publishing domains. Over the last 30 days its share declined by 0.21 pp. Its strongest TLD is .com (48.7% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Last updated from the 2026-09-18 DNS snapshot.
What Namecheap Forwarding represents in this dataset
Namecheap registrar inbound email forwarding (efwd.registrar-servers.com).
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 2026-09-18 snapshot shows about Namecheap Forwarding
Across 265 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (48.7%), .net (5.4%), .online (3.4%) — together 57.5% of the 7,405 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Namecheap Email Forwarding (Mailbox, 6,665 domains, 90.0% of them), followed by Google Workspace (4.1%). Its share of SPF-publishing domains moved -0.21 pp in 30 days, a change larger than list churn alone explains. 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 (2026-09-18); 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 Namecheap Forwarding
What else the same 7,405 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-18).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Namecheap Forwarding users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Namecheap Email Forwarding | 6,665 | 90.0% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 302 | 4.1% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 55 | 0.7% |
| Mailbox | Zoho Mail | 28 | 0.4% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 21 | 0.3% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 19 | 0.3% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 29 | 0.4% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 28 | 0.4% |
| ESP | ImprovMX | 19 | 0.3% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 19 | 0.3% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 265)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Namecheap Forwarding?
7,405 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Namecheap Forwarding as their email service provider (ESP) as of September 18, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Namecheap Forwarding's market share?
Namecheap Forwarding holds 1.16% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-18). The number is recomputed every day.
Is Namecheap Forwarding growing or declining?
Namecheap Forwarding's share declined by 0.21 percentage points over the last 30 days (as of September 18, 2026).
What are the biggest alternatives to Namecheap Forwarding?
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 2026-09-18).
Largest email service provider (ESP)s in this category
Amazon SES (6.20%) · SendGrid (Twilio) (4.65%) · Mailgun (4.01%) · Zendesk (3.76%) · Mailchimp (3.58%) · Mandrill (3.25%) · HubSpot (3.14%) · Salesforce (2.55%) · Mailjet (Sinch) (2.13%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.95%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 7,405 domains.