Report Description

This report details the major mail hosting providers. This includes both ISPs as well as specialty mail service providers.

Methodology

Each month we issue MX record queries to determine where the mail servers are located for every domain in our web server survey. We then take a look at all the responses received across the entire survey and categorize's each MX record as being either

• Hosted by an ISP or specialty service provider;
• Self Hosted
• Unknown - unable to categorize in one of the first two choices.

If a domain's MX record doesn't fit into either of the above categories, it is classified as Unknown.

Top 250 Mail Hosting Providers (Sample size: 5,180,491 domains)

Provider	August 2002 Hostname Count	August 2002 %	July 2002 Hostname Count	July 2002 %	Growth %
UNKNOWN	3,021,230	58.32	2,907,970	56.58	3.08
SELF	1,435,044	27.70	1,432,096	27.86	-0.58
webmailer.de	72,286	1.40	72,100	1.40	-0.53
freeservers.com	56,323	1.09	55,447	1.08	0.78
cjb.net	44,208	0.85	43,461	0.85	0.92
criticalpath.net	31,745	0.61	31,524	0.61	-0.09
pair.com	26,684	0.52	26,548	0.52	-0.28
rapidsite.net	25,872	0.50	26,221	0.51	-2.11
earthlink.net	25,302	0.49	25,735	0.50	-2.46
uu.net	24,953	0.48	25,372	0.49	-2.43
dnsix.com	23,625	0.46	23,380	0.45	0.25
hypermart.net	20,557	0.40	20,541	0.40	-0.71
registeredsite.com	19,322	0.37	18,980	0.37	1.00
valueweb.net	17,463	0.34	17,589	0.34	-1.50
pol.net.uk	12,751	0.25	12,863	0.25	-1.65
9netave.com	12,687	0.24	13,026	0.25	-3.37
everyone.net	11,788	0.23	11,967	0.23	-2.27
virtualave.net	9,434	0.18	9,394	0.18	-0.37
pipex.net	9,385	0.18	9,424	0.18	-1.20
vuurwerk.nl	9,004	0.17	9,063	0.18	-1.43
mspring.net	8,512	0.16	8,666	0.17	-2.55
he.net	8,075	0.16	8,047	0.16	-0.44
freecity.de	7,892	0.15	7,821	0.15	0.11
vwh1.net	7,801	0.15	7,870	0.15	-1.66
dtag.de	7,488	0.14	7,386	0.14	0.58
rundblick.de	7,447	0.14	7,442	0.14	-0.72
boca15-verio.com	7,423	0.14	7,531	0.15	-2.21
doteasy.com	6,966	0.13	6,881	0.13	0.44
ispgateway.de	6,892	0.13	6,540	0.13	4.55
hichina.com	6,666	0.13	6,764	0.13	-2.23
uni2.dk	6,257	0.12	6,267	0.12	-0.95
bluegravity.com	6,103	0.12	5,971	0.12	1.40
siteamerica.com	5,907	0.11	5,929	0.12	-1.16
enternet.com.pl	5,849	0.11	5,652	0.11	2.67
prv.pl	5,824	0.11	5,628	0.11	2.67
netnation.com	5,667	0.11	5,725	0.11	-1.79
yahoo.com	5,502	0.11	5,538	0.11	-1.43
servidoresdns.net	5,497	0.11	5,421	0.11	0.60
hispeedhosting.com	5,424	0.10	5,311	0.10	1.32
widexs.nl	5,087	0.10	4,995	0.10	1.04
plus.net	4,929	0.10	4,913	0.10	-0.47
mailix.net	4,838	0.09	5,030	0.10	-4.58
o0o.net	4,791	0.09	5,175	0.10	-8.15
tiscali.it	4,680	0.09	4,632	0.09	0.24
icom.com	4,548	0.09	3,968	0.08	13.71
centre.ru	4,469	0.09	4,366	0.08	1.55
innerhost.com	4,368	0.08	4,339	0.08	-0.13
dnsvr.com	4,266	0.08	4,614	0.09	-8.27
mach10hosting.com	4,216	0.08	3,935	0.08	6.30
estore.co.jp	4,176	0.08	4,271	0.08	-3.00
freehosting.nl	4,150	0.08	4,118	0.08	-0.02
verio-web.com	3,987	0.08	3,906	0.08	1.27
easydns.com	3,964	0.08	3,832	0.07	2.63
freenet.de	3,896	0.08	3,853	0.07	0.32
verio.de	3,849	0.07	3,910	0.08	-2.34
gadom.com	3,848	0.07	3,160	0.06	20.81
netbeat.de	3,824	0.07	3,764	0.07	0.79
burlee.com	3,816	0.07	3,832	0.07	-1.20
fastweb.co.uk	3,770	0.07	3,820	0.07	-2.09
ai.net	3,711	0.07	3,436	0.07	7.15
interbusiness.it	3,589	0.07	3,641	0.07	-2.21
telstra.net	3,585	0.07	3,610	0.07	-1.48
chinadns.com	3,533	0.07	3,344	0.07	4.82
crystaltech.com	3,487	0.07	3,408	0.07	1.51
oleane.net	3,466	0.07	3,463	0.07	-0.70
webcom.com	3,339	0.06	3,415	0.07	-3.00
buydomains.com	3,308	0.06	103,411	2.01	-96.83
siol.net	3,297	0.06	3,326	0.06	-1.65
xcite.net	3,269	0.06	3,315	0.06	-2.17
expro.pl	3,251	0.06	3,286	0.06	-1.85
candidhosting.com	3,247	0.06	2,855	0.06	12.83
verisignmail.net	3,216	0.06	3,201	0.06	-0.32
telia.com	3,204	0.06	3,202	0.06	-0.73
ad.jp	3,188	0.06	3,077	0.06	2.79
hostcenter.com	3,148	0.06	3,138	0.06	-0.47
9netave.it	3,048	0.06	3,041	0.06	-0.56
btconnect.com	3,004	0.06	2,975	0.06	0.18
xtra.co.nz	2,960	0.06	2,977	0.06	-1.35
dulles19-verio.com	2,951	0.06	2,889	0.06	1.34
your-site.com	2,947	0.06	2,827	0.06	3.42
oleane.com	2,946	0.06	2,913	0.06	0.34
oakweb.com	2,907	0.06	3,058	0.06	-5.69
doregi.com	2,900	0.06	2,774	0.05	3.72
t-intra.de	2,895	0.06	2,867	0.06	0.18
ndcom.net	2,873	0.06	2,926	0.06	-2.59
sczn.de	2,852	0.06	2,867	0.06	-1.31
ip-plus.net	2,848	0.05	2,834	0.06	-0.30
pbi.net	2,844	0.05	2,856	0.06	-1.21
aha.ru	2,844	0.05	2,875	0.06	-1.86
datacomm.ch	2,828	0.05	2,896	0.06	-3.12
majorhost.com	2,813	0.05	2,836	0.06	-1.59
ocn.ne.jp	2,798	0.05	2,739	0.05	1.35
tele.fi	2,700	0.05	2,681	0.05	-0.09
kontent.de	2,682	0.05	2,605	0.05	2.14
andersenit.dk	2,646	0.05	2,583	0.05	1.63
online.no	2,626	0.05	2,591	0.05	0.55
businessserve.co.uk	2,607	0.05	2,601	0.05	-0.56
futurequest.net	2,586	0.05	2,541	0.05	0.97
ipartners.pl	2,580	0.05	2,615	0.05	-2.12
force9.net	2,542	0.05	2,531	0.05	-0.36
inetu.net	2,541	0.05	2,569	0.05	-1.87
netuse.de	2,530	0.05	2,546	0.05	-1.41
bellsouth-hosting.net	2,523	0.05	2,500	0.05	0.12
domicile.fr	2,476	0.05	2,439	0.05	0.72
dp-server.com	2,461	0.05	1,814	0.04	34.60
net.ua	2,445	0.05	2,387	0.05	1.62
webminders.com	2,424	0.05	2,328	0.05	3.30
speedlink.de	2,417	0.05	2,461	0.05	-2.56
admiral.ne.jp	2,376	0.05	2,377	0.05	-0.83
uunet.ca	2,358	0.05	2,462	0.05	-4.98
portland.co.uk	2,355	0.05	2,312	0.04	1.06
fsn.net	2,352	0.05	2,409	0.05	-3.14
freeyellow.com	2,294	0.04	2,290	0.04	-0.62
polbox.com	2,240	0.04	2,221	0.04	0.06
b2bbiz.com	2,216	0.04	2,213	0.04	-0.65
t-online.de	2,205	0.04	2,188	0.04	-0.02
gtn.com	2,170	0.04	2,319	0.05	-7.16
bigmailbox.com	2,164	0.04	2,785	0.05	-22.91
enavn.org	2,148	0.04	2,125	0.04	0.29
btinternet.com	2,146	0.04	2,124	0.04	0.24
ifrance.com	2,142	0.04	2,071	0.04	2.61
digiweb2.dk	2,141	0.04	2,191	0.04	-3.05
eu.net	2,093	0.04	3,501	0.07	-40.69
pi.dk	2,091	0.04	2,106	0.04	-1.49
activebooking.com	2,082	0.04	2,027	0.04	1.90
algonet.se	2,047	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
sanjose14-verio.com	1,981	0.04	1,979	0.04	-0.69
iptcom.net	1,955	0.04	1,919	0.04	1.07
smartredirect.com	1,901	0.04	1,875	0.04	0.59
nettuno.it	1,807	0.03	1,818	0.04	-1.39
alldomains.com	1,793	0.03	1,897	0.04	-6.23
rain.fr	1,789	0.03	1,802	0.04	-1.50
legend.co.uk	1,783	0.03	1,783	0.03	-0.79
digitalriver.com	1,780	0.03	1,770	0.03	-0.23
servergod.com	1,776	0.03	1,770	0.03	-0.45
vis.de	1,737	0.03	1,770	0.03	-2.64
widhost.net	1,732	0.03	1,690	0.03	1.68
basefarm.net	1,712	0.03	1,676	0.03	1.34
tera-byte.com	1,704	0.03	1,723	0.03	-1.88
conepuppy.com	1,702	0.03	1,158	0.02	45.82
ladot.com	1,697	0.03	1,692	0.03	-0.50
euro.net	1,688	0.03	1,697	0.03	-1.31
seeweb.it	1,686	0.03	1,694	0.03	-1.26
kpn.net	1,681	0.03	1,702	0.03	-2.01
cruzio.com	1,672	0.03	1,690	0.03	-1.85
netvision.net.il	1,667	0.03	1,778	0.03	-6.98
east.net.cn	1,655	0.03	1,654	0.03	-0.73
swbell.net	1,643	0.03	1,642	0.03	-0.73
tro.net	1,635	0.03	1,623	0.03	-0.05
stargateinc.com	1,588	0.03	1,569	0.03	0.41
taloha.com	1,584	0.03	1,343	0.03	17.02
serve.com	1,577	0.03	1,598	0.03	-2.09
xlink.net	1,553	0.03	1,731	0.03	-10.99
qwest.net	1,529	0.03	1,551	0.03	-2.20
xcalibre.co.uk	1,504	0.03	1,473	0.03	1.30
enic.cc	1,493	0.03	1,395	0.03	6.18
netservers.net	1,471	0.03	1,505	0.03	-3.03
tol.it	1,466	0.03	1,461	0.03	-0.45
webvis.net	1,464	0.03	1,480	0.03	-1.86
elron.net	1,448	0.03	1,550	0.03	-7.32
space.net	1,437	0.03	1,472	0.03	-3.15
bigpond.com	1,419	0.03	1,405	0.03	0.20
domainactive.com	1,375	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
nic.it	1,361	0.03	1,378	0.03	-2.01
kdt.de	1,357	0.03	1,454	0.03	-7.41
iuinc.com	1,325	0.03	1,343	0.03	-2.12
netropolis.dk	1,305	0.03	1,332	0.03	-2.80
onet.pl	1,298	0.03	1,243	0.02	3.60
uniserve.com	1,297	0.03	1,299	0.03	-0.94
safeserver.com	1,294	0.02	1,330	0.03	-3.47
ymail.net	1,290	0.02	1,283	0.02	-0.25
bltc.net	1,290	0.02	1,272	0.02	0.62
webzdarma.cz	1,288	0.02	1,255	0.02	1.82
telvinet.pl	1,275	0.02	1,283	0.02	-1.41
genotec.ch	1,262	0.02	1,283	0.02	-2.41
infomaniak.ch	1,249	0.02	1,218	0.02	1.74
theplanet.net	1,248	0.02	1,272	0.02	-2.66
ihug.co.nz	1,238	0.02	1,253	0.02	-1.98
bazafirm.pl	1,218	0.02	1,220	0.02	-0.95
zigzag.pl	1,217	0.02	1,250	0.02	-3.41
webhot2.dk	1,217	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
isprime.com	1,211	0.02	1,151	0.02	4.38
stargate.net	1,203	0.02	1,220	0.02	-2.17
webhosting-verizon.net	1,194	0.02	1,210	0.02	-2.10
eunet.no	1,170	0.02	1,189	0.02	-2.37
sonic.net	1,161	0.02	1,163	0.02	-0.96
aon.at	1,151	0.02	1,155	0.02	-1.13
netsite.dk	1,144	0.02	1,133	0.02	0.17
bellnexxia.net	1,140	0.02	779	0.02	45.19
pwebtech.com	1,136	0.02	1,223	0.02	-7.85
shawcable.com	1,126	0.02	1,114	0.02	0.28
51.net	1,113	0.02	1,051	0.02	5.06
mclink.it	1,112	0.02	1,089	0.02	1.31
pnet.pl	1,095	0.02	1,130	0.02	-3.86
nac.net	1,082	0.02	1,098	0.02	-2.23
netcom.ca	1,074	0.02	1,068	0.02	-0.23
swiss-web.com	1,069	0.02	1,112	0.02	-4.62
nic.cc	1,062	0.02	1,077	0.02	-2.17
tel.cz	1,059	0.02	1,060	0.02	-0.88
sexfunpark.com	1,056	0.02	1,055	0.02	-0.69
advancedaccess.com	1,048	0.02	1,076	0.02	-3.37
active.ch	1,048	0.02	1,052	0.02	-1.17
plugit.net	1,043	0.02	1,064	0.02	-2.75
uunet.be	1,040	0.02	1,049	0.02	-1.64
variomedia.de	1,038	0.02	1,020	0.02	0.96
alpha.pl	1,017	0.02	543	0.01	85.82
maturebbw.net	1,015	0.02	1,015	0.02	-0.79
myareaguide.com	993	0.02	1,004	0.02	-1.88
videotron.net	982	0.02	1,034	0.02	-5.78
ozemail.net	967	0.02	998	0.02	-3.87
metronet.co.uk	964	0.02	941	0.02	1.64
ids.pl	956	0.02	962	0.02	-1.41
easystreet.com	951	0.02	942	0.02	0.16
net4india.com	949	0.02	931	0.02	1.13
hit.bg	947	0.02	915	0.02	2.68
globalnewshost.com	946	0.02	912	0.02	2.91
bestimage.com	945	0.02	919	0.02	2.02
sinhost.com	943	0.02	874	0.02	7.04
intekom.com	939	0.02	947	0.02	-1.63
adhost.com	938	0.02	905	0.02	2.83
ecommodate.com	937	0.02	940	0.02	-1.10
ghoulnet.com	932	0.02	972	0.02	-4.87
golden.net	931	0.02	935	0.02	-1.21
safesecureweb.com	928	0.02	750	0.01	22.76
hostingservice2.dk	927	0.02	933	0.02	-1.43
sover.net	924	0.02	934	0.02	-1.85
intekom.co.za	920	0.02	929	0.02	-1.75
tvsecure.com	917	0.02	910	0.02	-0.03
swip.net	916	0.02	939	0.02	-3.22
linux-hosting.com	912	0.02	767	0.01	17.97
inpraise.org	911	0.02	911	0.02	-0.79
granniesnfatties.org	911	0.02	911	0.02	-0.79
mixedmedia.net	909	0.02	881	0.02	2.36
wethost.com	907	0.02	886	0.02	1.56
iqtinc.com	907	0.02	928	0.02	-3.03
easynet.net	907	0.02	912	0.02	-1.33
skynet.be	900	0.02	886	0.02	0.78
webstream.net	896	0.02	905	0.02	-1.77
newnet.co.uk	896	0.02	903	0.02	-1.56
dns4less.com	889	0.02	836	0.02	5.50
webresidence.com	888	0.02	889	0.02	-0.90
webmail4less.com	888	0.02	836	0.02	5.38
fatgrannies.net	885	0.02	885	0.02	-0.79
voyager.hr	879	0.02	890	0.02	-2.01
domainteam.dk	876	0.02	880	0.02	-1.24
postoffice.net	870	0.02	919	0.02	-6.08
iol.cz	869	0.02	887	0.02	-2.80
masterhost.ru	861	0.02	785	0.02	8.82
miraclecreations.com	857	0.02	844	0.02	0.74
megapath.net	852	0.02	839	0.02	0.75
rubikon.net.pl	846	0.02	871	0.02	-3.64
xmission.com	839	0.02	841	0.02	-1.02
hostrack.com	838	0.02	830	0.02	0.17
ukisp.net	834	0.02	839	0.02	-1.38
totalweb.co.uk	823	0.02	856	0.02	-4.61
iarna.co.uk	823	0.02	815	0.02	0.19
mistral.co.uk	821	0.02	808	0.02	0.81
cybernet-ag.de	815	0.02	821	0.02	-1.51
3wcorp.com	811	0.02	1,401	0.03	-42.57
supanetwork.co.uk	808	0.02	797	0.02	0.58
cisdata.net	807	0.02	786	0.02	1.86
planetinternet.be	806	0.02	814	0.02	-1.76
moduleweb.net	792	0.02	786	0.02	-0.03
admiral.net	792	0.02	781	0.02	0.61
introweb.nl	790	0.02	792	0.02	-1.04
eunet.cz	788	0.02	794	0.02	-1.54
grannypictures.org	781	0.02	781	0.02	-0.79
grannypics.net	781	0.02	781	0.02	-0.79
chek.com	778	0.02	839	0.02	-8.00
lee.net	775	0.01	765	0.01	0.51
cyberlink.ch	773	0.01	771	0.02	-0.53
car-part.com	771	0.01	777	0.02	-1.55
wineasy.se	768	0.01	771	0.02	-1.17
redrockinternet.com	768	0.01	729	0.01	4.52
indigo.ie	767	0.01	798	0.02	-4.64
riscimt.net	766	0.01	762	0.01	-0.27
dollarhost.com	765	0.01	764	0.01	-0.66
bekkoame.ne.jp	764	0.01	744	0.01	1.88
isdnet.net	763	0.01	750	0.01	0.93
hostdepot.com	761	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
zabco.net	760	0.01	711	0.01	6.05
azc.com	756	0.01	772	0.02	-2.84
rcts.pt	755	0.01	750	0.01	-0.13
mailserveren.com	755	0.01	743	0.01	0.81
pleasuretek.com	751	0.01	745	0.01	0.01
iway.fr	751	0.01	753	0.01	-1.05
globalintranet.net	750	0.01	749	0.01	-0.66
iunet.it	748	0.01	775	0.02	-4.24
contactel.cz	747	0.01	779	0.02	-4.86
braslink.com	732	0.01	718	0.01	1.15
inter.net.il	730	0.01	741	0.01	-2.26
clear.net.nz	728	0.01	762	0.01	-5.22
sitematic.com	727	0.01	735	0.01	-1.87
just.nu	727	0.01	712	0.01	1.30
tele.dk	722	0.01	705	0.01	1.60
mail.dk	721	0.01	730	0.01	-2.01
clearlight.com	720	0.01	728	0.01	-1.88
dialcom.com.pl	718	0.01	724	0.01	-1.61
schools.net.au	716	0.01	703	0.01	1.05
stonline.sk	714	0.01	686	0.01	3.26
hostrack.net	714	0.01	692	0.01	2.37
addr.com	713	0.01	731	0.01	-3.23
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