mailbox
According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 25, 2026), WordPress.com Email Forwarding is the mailbox provider for 95 domains — 0.01% of 671,693 domains with MX records. Its strongest TLD is .com (68.4% of its domains). Detection: primary MX record (lowest preference).
Last updated from the 2026-07-25 DNS snapshot.
Legacy WordPress.com custom-domain email forwarding through smtp-fwd.wordpress.com.
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.
Across 14 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (68.4%), .org (9.5%), .net (4.2%) — together 82.1% of the 95 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 Namecheap Forwarding (ESP, 2 domains, 2.1% of them), followed by FeedBlitz (1.1%). 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 (2026-07-25); 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.
What else the same 95 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-07-25).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of WordPress.com Email Forwarding users |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Namecheap Forwarding | 2 | 2.1% |
| ESP | FeedBlitz | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Mailchimp | 1 | 1.1% |
| ESP | Elastic Email | 1 | 1.1% |
95 domains in the Tranco top-1M use WordPress.com Email Forwarding as their mailbox provider as of July 25, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
WordPress.com Email Forwarding holds 0.01% of domains with MX records in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-07-25). The number is recomputed every day.
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 2026-07-25).
Self-Hosted (22.79%) · Google Workspace (21.83%) · Microsoft 365 (16.87%) · Unknown / Other (6.80%) · Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (2.55%) · Proofpoint (1.90%) · Generic / unmatched (mail.*) (1.76%) · Yandex 360 (1.67%) · Cloudflare Email Routing (1.63%) · Mimecast (1.52%)
Showing 95 of 95 domains.