Barracuda email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), Barracuda is the mailbox provider for 3,492 domains — 0.52% of 675,489 domains with MX records. Its share has been stable over the last 30 days. Its strongest TLD is .com (48.7% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-24 DNS snapshot.
What Barracuda represents in this dataset
Mid-market email security and backup.
Directory category: Gateway. 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 Barracuda
Across 117 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (48.7%), .org (16.1%), .edu (4.1%) — together 68.9% of the 3,492 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Barracuda Essentials (ESP, 1,773 domains, 50.8% of them), followed by Amazon SES (10.5%). Its share of domains with MX records has not moved measurably in 30 days. 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 Barracuda
What else the same 3,492 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-24).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Barracuda users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Barracuda Essentials | 1,773 | 50.8% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 366 | 10.5% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 346 | 9.9% |
| ESP | Salesforce | 306 | 8.8% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 292 | 8.4% |
| ESP | Barracuda Email Security | 290 | 8.3% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 287 | 8.2% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 263 | 7.5% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 225 | 6.4% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 164 | 4.7% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 117)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Barracuda?
3,492 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Barracuda as their mailbox provider as of September 24, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Barracuda's market share?
Barracuda holds 0.52% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-24). The number is recomputed every day.
Is Barracuda growing or declining?
Barracuda's share has been stable over the last 30 days (±0.01 pp).
What are the biggest alternatives to Barracuda?
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 3,492 domains.