Barracuda email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 26, 2026), Barracuda is the mailbox provider for 3,593 domains — 0.54% of 667,887 domains with MX records. Its share has been stable over the last 30 days. Its strongest TLD is .com (49.2% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).

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

3,593domains
0.54%of domains with MX records
+0.01 ppshare, 30 days
117distinct TLDs
2026-07-26snapshot (updated daily)

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 2026-07-26 snapshot shows about Barracuda

Across 117 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (49.2%), .org (16.6%), .edu (4.1%) — together 69.9% of the 3,593 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, 1,809 domains, 50.3% of them), followed by Amazon SES (10.0%). 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 (2026-07-26); 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 3,593 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-26).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Barracuda users
ESPBarracuda Essentials1,80950.3%
ESPAmazon SES35910.0%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)35810.0%
ESPSalesforce3138.7%
ESPMailchimp3098.6%
ESPBarracuda Email Security2968.2%
ESPHubSpot2857.9%
ESPMandrill2657.4%
ESPMailgun2336.5%
ESPZendesk1774.9%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 117)

com — 1,767 (49.2%)
org — 595 (16.6%)
edu — 148 (4.1%)
co.uk — 124 (3.5%)
gov — 121 (3.4%)
net — 112 (3.1%)
nl — 72 (2.0%)
ca — 52 (1.4%)
de — 51 (1.4%)
it — 36 (1.0%)
com.au — 36 (1.0%)
org.uk — 33 (0.9%)
us — 32 (0.9%)
be — 29 (0.8%)
at — 23 (0.6%)
cl — 18 (0.5%)
pl — 17 (0.5%)
ac.uk — 17 (0.5%)
fr — 16 (0.4%)
ie — 14 (0.4%)
gov.uk — 13 (0.4%)
in — 12 (0.3%)
au — 12 (0.3%)
ch — 11 (0.3%)
eu — 11 (0.3%)
gt — 8 (0.2%)
es — 8 (0.2%)
io — 8 (0.2%)
bd — 8 (0.2%)
com.mx — 7 (0.2%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Barracuda?

3,593 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Barracuda as their mailbox provider as of July 26, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Barracuda's market share?

Barracuda holds 0.54% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-26). 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 2026-07-26).

Largest mailbox providers in this category

Self-Hosted (22.75%) · Google Workspace (21.84%) · Microsoft 365 (16.92%) · Unknown / Other (6.80%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.54%) · Proofpoint (1.92%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.77%) · Yandex 360 (1.68%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.63%) · Mimecast (1.53%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 3,593 domains.