Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet) email provider statistics and deliverability context
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According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 24, 2026), Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet) is the SaaS sender for 38 domains — 0.01% of 637,420 SPF-publishing domains. Its strongest TLD is .com (86.8% of its domains). Detection: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Last updated from the 2026-09-24 DNS snapshot.
What Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet) represents in this dataset
Automattic — WordPress.com, Akismet, Jetpack notification email.
Directory category: Saas. The classification comes from include: mechanisms in the SPF record. 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 Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet)
Across 6 distinct TLDs its top three are .com (86.8%), .fr (2.6%), .co.uk (2.6%) — together 92.1% of the 38 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 Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) (Mailbox, 24 domains, 63.2% of them), followed by Microsoft 365 (13.2%). Directly comparable by the same detection rule: Shopify, Pardot (Salesforce), CodeTwo Email Signatures 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 include: mechanisms in the SPF record rule, which is an infrastructure fact, not a commercial relationship.
Commonly used together with Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet)
What else the same 38 domains use — cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot (2026-09-24).
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Generic / unmatched (mx*.*) | 24 | 63.2% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 5 | 13.2% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 4 | 10.5% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 2 | 5.3% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 2 | 5.3% |
| Mailbox | Cisco IronPort | 1 | 2.6% |
TLD distribution (top 6 of 6)
Frequently asked questions
How many domains use Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet)?
38 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet) as their SaaS sender as of September 24, 2026, according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
What is Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet)'s market share?
Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet) holds 0.01% of SPF-publishing domains in the Tranco top-1M (snapshot of 2026-09-24). The number is recomputed every day.
What are the biggest alternatives to Automattic (WordPress.com / Akismet)?
The largest SaaS senders in the same category by Tranco top-1M share are: Shopify, Pardot (Salesforce), CodeTwo Email Signatures 365, KnowBe4, Statuspage (Atlassian) (as of 2026-09-24).
Largest SaaS senders in this category
Shopify (0.84%) · Pardot (Salesforce) (0.75%) · CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 (0.71%) · KnowBe4 (0.54%) · Statuspage (Atlassian) (0.33%) · Trustpilot (0.30%) · Firebase (Google) (0.29%) · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) (0.28%) · BigCommerce (0.27%) · Lark / Feishu (0.20%)
Domain sample (top 38 by Tranco rank)
Showing 38 of 38 domains.