Who handles your email?

TenFour · 11 Mar 2023, 08:45 PM

Interesting article on the centralization of email.

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34% of all domains (53.7 million) use one of Google's mail servers, 14% (22.5 million) one of GoDaddy's, 13.5% (~21.3 million) one of Namecheap's
for the Top 1M domains, over 60% use Google's (41%) and Microsoft's (20%) mail servers

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/mx-diversity.html

Folio · 11 Mar 2023, 10:35 PM

Very interesting statistics in that article. Before reading it, I did not know that if a domain has an A record, mail servers will attempt to deliver to the server in the A record if they do not find an MX record. So, if you do not plan on receiving mail at a domain, you should set up a "Null MX" record.

jeffpan · 11 Mar 2023, 11:03 PM

Name and GoDaddy just have forwarding by default.
And A RR points to their hosting page.

Statistics from domain registrars means nothing but the domains number they hold.

11 Mar 2023, 10:35 PM	#2
Folio Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 77	Very interesting statistics in that article. Before reading it, I did not know that if a domain has an A record, mail servers will attempt to deliver to the server in the A record if they do not find an MX record. So, if you do not plan on receiving mail at a domain, you should set up a "Null MX" record.

11 Mar 2023, 11:03 PM	#3
jeffpan The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Macao Posts: 2,157 Representative of: tls-mail.com	Name and GoDaddy just have forwarding by default. And A RR points to their hosting page. Statistics from domain registrars means nothing but the domains number they hold.