Alibaba Cloud email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), Alibaba Cloud is the mailbox provider for 268 domains — 0.04% of 675,489 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .com (56.0% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-24 DNS snapshot.
What Alibaba Cloud represents in this dataset
Aliyun cloud — generic email-on-cloud workloads.
Directory category: Hosting. The classification comes from primary MX record (lowest preference). 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 Alibaba Cloud
Across 42 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (56.0%), .cn (7.8%), .net (5.2%) — together 69.0% of the 268 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Alibaba DirectMail (ESP, 141 domains, 52.6% of them), followed by Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) (24.3%). Directly comparable by the same detection rule: Self-Hosted, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365. 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 primary MX record (lowest preference) rule, which is an infrastructure fact, not a commercial relationship.
Commonly used together with Alibaba Cloud
What else the same 268 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-24).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Alibaba Cloud users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail | 141 | 52.6% |
| ESP | Alibaba DirectMail (APAC) | 65 | 24.3% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 3 | 1.1% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 3 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 3 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 2 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Unisender (RU) | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | DashaMail (RU) | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 1 | 0.4% |
| ESP | Proofpoint | 1 | 0.4% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 42)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Alibaba Cloud?
268 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Alibaba Cloud as their mailbox provider as of September 24, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Alibaba Cloud's market share?
Alibaba Cloud holds 0.04% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-24). The number is recomputed every day.
What are the biggest alternatives to Alibaba Cloud?
The largest mailbox providers in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: Self-Hosted, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Unknown / Other, Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (as of 2026-09-24).
Largest mailbox providers in this category
Self-Hosted (22.56%) · Google Workspace (21.58%) · Microsoft 365 (17.03%) · Unknown / Other (6.68%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.53%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.93%) · Proofpoint (1.86%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.76%) · Yandex 360 (1.67%) · Mimecast (1.47%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 268 domains.