iCloud Mail email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), iCloud Mail is the mailbox provider for 444 domains — 0.07% of 675,489 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .com (38.1% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-24 DNS snapshot.
What iCloud Mail represents in this dataset
Apple iCloud mail — Custom-domain feature available with iCloud+ subscription.
Directory category: Mailbox. 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 iCloud Mail
Across 103 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (38.1%), .net (7.9%), .org (4.1%) — together 50.0% of the 444 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Cloudflare Email Routing (ESP, 10 domains, 2.3% of them), followed by Amazon SES (2.0%). 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 iCloud Mail
What else the same 444 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-24).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of iCloud Mail users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Cloudflare Email Routing | 10 | 2.3% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 9 | 2.0% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 7 | 1.6% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 4 | 0.9% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 3 | 0.7% |
| ESP | MailerLite | 3 | 0.7% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 2 | 0.5% |
| ESP | MailChannels | 2 | 0.5% |
| ESP | Namecheap Forwarding | 2 | 0.5% |
| ESP | Postmark | 2 | 0.5% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 103)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use iCloud Mail?
444 domains in the Tranco top-1M use iCloud Mail as their mailbox provider as of September 24, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is iCloud Mail's market share?
iCloud Mail holds 0.07% 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 iCloud Mail?
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%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 444 domains.