Forward Email email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 14, 2026), Forward Email is the mailbox provider for 517 domains — 0.08% of 674,487 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .com (48.7% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-14 DNS snapshot.
What Forward Email represents in this dataset
Open-source DNS-based email forwarding service.
Directory category: Forwarder. 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 2026-09-14 snapshot shows about Forward Email
Across 78 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (48.7%), .org (13.2%), .net (6.4%) — together 68.3% of the 517 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Forward Email (ESP, 212 domains, 41.0% of them), followed by Mailgun (7.4%). 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 (2026-09-14); 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 Forward Email
What else the same 517 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-14).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Forward Email users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Forward Email | 212 | 41.0% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 38 | 7.4% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 31 | 6.0% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 20 | 3.9% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 16 | 3.1% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 10 | 1.9% |
| ESP | Proofpoint | 9 | 1.7% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 8 | 1.5% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 7 | 1.4% |
| ESP | MailerLite | 6 | 1.2% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 78)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Forward Email?
517 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Forward Email as their mailbox provider as of September 14, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Forward Email's market share?
Forward Email holds 0.08% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-14). The number is recomputed every day.
What are the biggest alternatives to Forward Email?
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 2026-09-14).
Largest mailbox providers in this category
Self-Hosted (22.46%) · Google Workspace (21.60%) · Microsoft 365 (16.95%) · Unknown / Other (6.60%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.54%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.94%) · Proofpoint (1.86%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.76%) · Yandex 360 (1.62%) · Mimecast (1.46%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 517 domains.