GoDaddy email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 13, 2026), GoDaddy is the mailbox provider for 5,218 domains — 0.78% of 664,797 domains with MX records. Its share has been stable over the last 30 days. Its strongest TLD is .com (60.8% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-13 DNS snapshot.
What GoDaddy represents in this dataset
GoDaddy — world's largest registrar, bundled mail via secureserver.net.
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 2026-09-13 snapshot shows about GoDaddy
Across 145 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (60.8%), .org (7.1%), .in (6.4%) — together 74.3% of the 5,218 domains, which makes the footprint narrow — three TLDs cover most of it, which is typical of a regional or single-market operator. The service most often observed on the same domains is Mailgun (ESP, 103 domains, 2.0% of them), followed by Amazon SES (2.0%). 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 (2026-09-13); 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 GoDaddy
What else the same 5,218 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-13).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of GoDaddy users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Mailgun | 103 | 2.0% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 102 | 2.0% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 90 | 1.7% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 55 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 35 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 33 | 0.6% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 28 | 0.5% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 26 | 0.5% |
| ESP | MailerLite | 22 | 0.4% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 19 | 0.4% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 145)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use GoDaddy?
5,218 domains in the Tranco top-1M use GoDaddy as their mailbox provider as of September 13, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is GoDaddy's market share?
GoDaddy holds 0.78% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-13). The number is recomputed every day.
Is GoDaddy growing or declining?
GoDaddy's share has been stable over the last 30 days (±0.01 pp).
What are the biggest alternatives to GoDaddy?
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 2026-09-13).
Largest mailbox providers in this category
Self-Hosted (22.38%) · Google Workspace (21.67%) · Microsoft 365 (16.97%) · Unknown / Other (6.61%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.53%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.94%) · Proofpoint (1.88%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.75%) · Yandex 360 (1.61%) · Mimecast (1.46%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 5,218 domains.