Hornetsecurity email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 11, 2026), Hornetsecurity is the mailbox provider for 1,557 domains — 0.23% of 666,213 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .de (39.9% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Last updated from the 2026-09-11 DNS snapshot.

1,557domains
0.23%of domains with MX records
77distinct TLDs
2026-09-11snapshot (updated daily)

What Hornetsecurity represents in this dataset

European cloud email security suite.

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 2026-09-11 snapshot shows about Hornetsecurity

Across 77 distinct TLDs its top three are .de (39.9%), .com (27.3%), .fr (8.5%) — together 75.7% of the 1,557 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 Hornetsecurity (ESP, 1,175 domains, 75.5% of them), followed by Mailjet (Sinch) (9.5%). 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 (2026-09-11); 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 Hornetsecurity

What else the same 1,557 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-11).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Hornetsecurity users
ESPHornetsecurity1,17575.5%
ESPMailjet (Sinch)1489.5%
ESPAmazon SES1217.8%
ESPBrevo (ex-Sendinblue)905.8%
ESPConstant Contact885.7%
ESPZendesk664.2%
ESPHubSpot634.0%
ESPSalesforce634.0%
ESPMailchimp624.0%
ESPMailgun593.8%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 77)

de — 622 (39.9%)
com — 425 (27.3%)
fr — 132 (8.5%)
co.uk — 42 (2.7%)
org — 40 (2.6%)
net — 33 (2.1%)
es — 31 (2.0%)
at — 30 (1.9%)
ch — 21 (1.3%)
eu — 19 (1.2%)
ca — 17 (1.1%)
it — 12 (0.8%)
nl — 10 (0.6%)
info — 8 (0.5%)
ie — 8 (0.5%)
com.mx — 6 (0.4%)
org.uk — 6 (0.4%)
pt — 6 (0.4%)
se — 5 (0.3%)
co — 4 (0.3%)
mx — 4 (0.3%)
si — 4 (0.3%)
be — 4 (0.3%)
pl — 3 (0.2%)
com.au — 3 (0.2%)
gr — 2 (0.1%)
ag — 2 (0.1%)
systems — 2 (0.1%)
hr — 2 (0.1%)
services — 2 (0.1%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Hornetsecurity?

1,557 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Hornetsecurity as their mailbox provider as of September 11, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Hornetsecurity's market share?

Hornetsecurity holds 0.23% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-11). The number is recomputed every day.

What are the biggest alternatives to Hornetsecurity?

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 2026-09-11).

Largest mailbox providers in this category

Self-Hosted (22.45%) · Google Workspace (21.65%) · Microsoft 365 (16.96%) · Unknown / Other (6.58%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.53%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.94%) · Proofpoint (1.88%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.74%) · Yandex 360 (1.61%) · Mimecast (1.46%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 1,557 domains.