Hornetsecurity email provider statistics and deliverability context

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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), Hornetsecurity is the mailbox provider for 1,663 domains — 0.25% of 675,489 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .de (40.0% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Last updated from the 2026-09-24 DNS snapshot.

1,663domains
0.25%of domains with MX records
74distinct TLDs
2026-09-24snapshot (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 2026-09-24 snapshot shows about Hornetsecurity

Across 74 distinct TLDs its top three are .de (40.0%), .com (27.1%), .fr (9.3%) — together 76.4% of the 1,663 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, 1,254 domains, 75.4% of them), followed by Mailjet (Sinch) (9.7%). 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 Hornetsecurity

What else the same 1,663 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-24).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Hornetsecurity users
ESPHornetsecurity1,25475.4%
ESPMailjet (Sinch)1629.7%
ESPAmazon SES1277.6%
ESPBrevo (ex-Sendinblue)1026.1%
ESPConstant Contact925.5%
ESPMailchimp694.1%
ESPZendesk694.1%
ESPSalesforce664.0%
ESPHubSpot653.9%
ESPMailgun633.8%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 74)

de — 665 (40.0%)
com — 450 (27.1%)
fr — 155 (9.3%)
co.uk — 43 (2.6%)
org — 42 (2.5%)
at — 34 (2.0%)
es — 33 (2.0%)
net — 33 (2.0%)
ch — 23 (1.4%)
eu — 19 (1.1%)
ca — 16 (1.0%)
it — 11 (0.7%)
nl — 10 (0.6%)
org.uk — 8 (0.5%)
pt — 7 (0.4%)
info — 7 (0.4%)
ie — 7 (0.4%)
com.mx — 7 (0.4%)
se — 6 (0.4%)
co — 5 (0.3%)
be — 4 (0.2%)
mx — 4 (0.2%)
si — 4 (0.2%)
pl — 3 (0.2%)
no — 3 (0.2%)
com.au — 3 (0.2%)
re — 3 (0.2%)
ag — 2 (0.1%)
cy — 2 (0.1%)
biz — 2 (0.1%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Hornetsecurity?

1,663 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Hornetsecurity as their mailbox provider as of September 24, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Hornetsecurity's market share?

Hornetsecurity holds 0.25% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-24). 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 2026-09-24).

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%)

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Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 1,663 domains.