Posts tagged "google-workspace"

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August 20, 2026 39 min read

MX Flux: Sixteen Months of Email Records for 422 Million Domains — 71% Never Touched Their MX, Google's Lead Grows Without Switchers, and 13 Million Domains Now Refuse Mail

We followed the MX record of every apex domain across eleven full crawls, April 2025 - August 2026 (421.9 million apexes). 70.8% of mail-capable domains sit on the bit-identical MX record set sixteen months later; provider switching runs under 1% a month. Google Workspace's lead over Microsoft 365 widened at every single pass (1.28 to 1.43 by domain count) - yet direct switching between the two is a wash; the gap is made by new domains, which arrive 2.3-to-1 for Google, while Microsoft wins the migrations out of self-hosting. Null MX quadrupled from 3.4M to 13.4M domains, and 77% of it is one aftermarket platform's zone template. For email and security teams, hosting providers, and Internet measurement researchers.

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June 21, 2026 20 min read

Who Runs the World's Email: Google Leads Microsoft 1.4-to-1 — But Registrar-Bundled Hosting Beats Them Both

We pointed an MX-typed crawl at 390 million registered domains to ask who actually handles the Internet's email. Only 38.7% can receive mail at all. Among those that can, Google Workspace leads Microsoft 365 by 1.4 to 1 (13.2% vs 9.4%) — the inverse of the enterprise market — yet both are dwarfed by registrar- and host-bundled email, which serves nearly a third of all mail-capable domains directly and most of the long tail besides. The result is a geographic map: Google owns the Americas and the developer world, Microsoft owns Northern Europe and the Commonwealth, and domestic hosts own their home ccTLDs. Built from 151 million apex MX records.

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