Mimecast email provider statistics and deliverability context

← Email Stats home

mailbox

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 30, 2026), Mimecast is the mailbox provider for 10,255 domains — 1.54% of 667,152 domains with MX records. Its share has been stable over the last 30 days. Its strongest TLD is .com (59.5% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).

Last updated from the 2026-07-30 DNS snapshot.

10,255domains
1.54%of domains with MX records
+0.01 ppshare, 30 days
183distinct TLDs
2026-07-30snapshot (updated daily)

What Mimecast represents in this dataset

UK/global cloud secure email gateway, very large enterprise share.

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 2026-07-30 snapshot shows about Mimecast

Across 183 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (59.5%), .org (8.3%), .co.uk (6.2%) — together 74.1% of the 10,255 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 Mimecast (ESP, 7,432 domains, 72.5% of them), followed by Salesforce (11.7%). 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 (2026-07-30); 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 Mimecast

What else the same 10,255 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-30).

TypeServiceDomainsShare of Mimecast users
ESPMimecast7,43272.5%
ESPSalesforce1,19511.7%
ESPSendGrid (Twilio)1,06510.4%
ESPAmazon SES1,02510.0%
ESPHubSpot8338.1%
ESPZendesk7967.8%
ESPMailchimp7076.9%
ESPMandrill6576.4%
ESPMailgun5455.3%
ESPMarketo (Adobe)2542.5%

TLD distribution (top 30 of 183)

com — 6,105 (59.5%)
org — 854 (8.3%)
co.uk — 635 (6.2%)
co.za — 344 (3.4%)
com.au — 325 (3.2%)
net — 192 (1.9%)
org.uk — 145 (1.4%)
de — 118 (1.2%)
fr — 109 (1.1%)
gov — 98 (1.0%)
au — 84 (0.8%)
ca — 78 (0.8%)
edu — 65 (0.6%)
za — 63 (0.6%)
nl — 63 (0.6%)
co.nz — 59 (0.6%)
gov.uk — 54 (0.5%)
ie — 54 (0.5%)
io — 43 (0.4%)
it — 37 (0.4%)
es — 35 (0.3%)
be — 35 (0.3%)
eu — 33 (0.3%)
ae — 28 (0.3%)
ac.uk — 24 (0.2%)
us — 22 (0.2%)
com.br — 19 (0.2%)
se — 19 (0.2%)
co — 18 (0.2%)
uk — 16 (0.2%)

Frequently asked questions

How many domains use Mimecast?

10,255 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Mimecast as their mailbox provider as of July 30, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.

What is Mimecast's market share?

Mimecast holds 1.54% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-30). The number is recomputed every day.

Is Mimecast growing or declining?

Mimecast's share has been stable over the last 30 days (±0.01 pp).

What are the biggest alternatives to Mimecast?

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 2026-07-30).

Largest mailbox providers in this category

Self-Hosted (22.74%) · Google Workspace (21.79%) · Microsoft 365 (16.94%) · Unknown / Other (6.79%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.55%) · Proofpoint (1.93%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.77%) · Yandex 360 (1.68%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.65%) · Hostinger (1.13%)

Mailbox providers portfolio → · Full daily report →

Your message may perform differently. Run an inbox placement test before sending through Mimecast.
Test My Email

Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)

Showing 100 of 10,255 domains.