Namecheap Email Forwarding email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 11, 2026), Namecheap Email Forwarding is the mailbox provider for 7,348 domains — 1.10% of 666,213 domains with MX records. Over the last 30 days its share declined by 0.22 pp. Its strongest TLD is .com (49.2% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-09-11 DNS snapshot.
What Namecheap Email Forwarding represents in this dataset
Free DNS-based forwarding offered with Namecheap domains.
Directory category: Forwarder. 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 Namecheap Email Forwarding
Across 253 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (49.2%), .net (5.3%), .online (3.6%) — together 58.1% of the 7,348 domains, which makes the footprint moderately concentrated, with a recognisable home market. The service most often observed on the same domains is Namecheap Forwarding (ESP, 6,869 domains, 93.5% of them), followed by Mailgun (0.2%). Its share of domains with MX records moved -0.22 pp in 30 days, a change larger than list churn alone explains. 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 Namecheap Email Forwarding
What else the same 7,348 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-11).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Namecheap Email Forwarding users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Namecheap Forwarding | 6,869 | 93.5% |
| ESP | Mailgun | 18 | 0.2% |
| ESP | Mailjet (Sinch) | 11 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 10 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 10 | 0.1% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 8 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Brevo (ex-Sendinblue) | 5 | 0.1% |
| ESP | MailerSend | 4 | 0.1% |
| ESP | MailerLite | 4 | 0.1% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 4 | 0.1% |
TLD distribution (top 30 of 253)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Namecheap Email Forwarding?
7,348 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Namecheap Email Forwarding as their mailbox provider as of September 11, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Namecheap Email Forwarding's market share?
Namecheap Email Forwarding holds 1.10% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-11). The number is recomputed every day.
Is Namecheap Email Forwarding growing or declining?
Namecheap Email Forwarding's share declined by 0.22 percentage points over the last 30 days (as of September 11, 2026).
What are the biggest alternatives to Namecheap Email Forwarding?
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%)
Domain sample (top 100 by Tranco rank)
Showing 100 of 7,348 domains.