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Companies using forward email_

As of 4 November 2026, 40,153 companies carry forward email on their website or in their DNS records; none names it in job postings yet.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Largest market
United States · 18,206 companies
Companies with 51+ staff
582 · 1% of the footprint
Top industry
Media & content · 23%
Team that names it most
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Hiring on it, last 30 days
0 companies
Most often alongside
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40,153companies show forward email, all sources
40,153on their website or in DNS records
0name it in their own job postings
0postings naming forward email, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

Where forward email shows up

Each population is counted on its own. We never add them up without saying so, because they answer different questions.

Website and DNS footprint40,153

Companies whose own pages load forward email's scripts or embeds, or whose domain's mail and hosting records (SPF, DKIM, MX, CNAME) point at forward email. From our crawl of 41.5M company websites and the DNS sweep behind it. Reach: the tool is in the building.

Job postings0

Companies whose own postings say the team works in forward email. Read hourly from ~70 applicant tracking systems, with the function, a quote and a date. Intent: the team that runs it is hiring.

Both0

Companies in the footprint whose postings also name forward email. The rest of the posting population (0) runs forward email without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on forward email

No company names forward email in its job postings with enough confidence to list yet; the companies below carry it on their website or in DNS.

Seen through the website or DNS only

Companies with 1,000+ employees whose website or DNS carries forward-email but whose postings never name it: the part of the market job data alone misses.

40,153 companies show forward email; 6 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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04 — Footprint breakdown

By country, company size and industry

The 40,153 companies with forward email on their website or in DNS. Click a country for its own page where we have one.

By country
companiesshare
United States
18,20645%
United Kingdom
2,9967%
Australia
2,0665%
Netherlands
1,6824%
Germany
7392%
France
6632%
Poland
6602%
Canada
6452%
Brazil
4891%
Spain
3371%
Italy
2221%
Belgium
2101%
By company size
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Self-employed
21,75754%
2-10 employees
6,20415%
11-50 employees
3,1368%
51-200 employees
4831%
201-500 employees
700%
501-1000 employees
210%
1001-5000 employees
20%
5001-10000 employees
30%
10,001+ employees
30%
By industry
companiesshare
Media & content
9,20123%
Technology & software
4,32911%
Commerce & trade
3,95010%
Consumer services & leisure
3,7689%
Property & construction
3,5399%
Business & finance services
2,3186%
Public, community & associations
1,4384%
Manufacturing & industry
1,0002%
Hospitality & travel
7892%
Health care
4991%
Automotive
2991%
Transport, logistics & rental
2901%
05 — What their DNS and pages also say

The mail, hosting and web stack of forward email companies

Other tools found on the same companies' websites or in their DNS records. Mail providers and senders come from SPF, DKIM and MX; the rest from page code.

Cloudflare18,614 companies · 46%
Google Workspace2,682 companies · 7%
Freshdesk2,388 companies · 6%SendGrid2,232 companies · 6%Vercel2,220 companies · 6%
facebook_pixel1,845 companies · 5%
Resend1,830 companies · 5%
Microsoft 3651,131 companies · 3%
Brevo1,068 companies · 3%
AWS Route 53915 companies · 2%
Amazon SES827 companies · 2%
yahoo704 companies · 2%ns1666 companies · 2%
cloudflare_email_routing637 companies · 2%
microsoft_teams621 companies · 2%
Mailgun598 companies · 1%
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40,153 companies carry forward email on their website or in their DNS records; no company names it in its job postings yet. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/forward-email)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • Website codeScripts, tags and embeds found on the company's own pages in our crawl of 41.5M sites. A tool counts once per company.
  • DNS recordsSPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX and CNAME records of the company's domain that point at forward email or another vendor. Swept in cycles; dedicated mail-provider and hosting facets open once coverage passes 80% per country.
  • Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites. A tool counts when the employer's own text names it as the team's system; candidate wish-lists and apply boilerplate are excluded. Confidence low, medium or high per company.
  • Sending infrastructureCold-e-mail sending domains are look-alike domains on a provider's infrastructure (DNS records, certificate logs) that redirect to the company. Absence is not evidence: only companies with a found sending domain are counted.
  • CompaniesCountry, size and industry come from the company profile we build from its website; headcount from LinkedIn where known, otherwise estimated. Job boards, portals and aggregators are kept out of lists.
FAQ

forward email data: questions

How many companies use forward email?

40,153 as of 4 November 2026: 40,153 carry forward email on their website or in their DNS records and 0 name it in their own job postings; 0 show up in both. We keep the two counts apart because they measure different things.

What does "website or DNS" mean?

Our crawler finds forward email's scripts, embeds and tags on the company's own pages, and our DNS sweep reads the domain's mail and hosting records (SPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX, CNAMEs) that point at forward email. Either one puts the company in the footprint. The sweep is still running, so this number grows week by week.

Why is the job-posting number so much smaller?

A posting only names a tool when the team that will use it is hiring and chooses to say so. That makes it a smaller but stronger signal: it tells you which team runs forward email, with a quote and a date. The footprint tells you reach.

How fresh is this?

Career sites are read hourly, websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and DNS is re-swept in cycles. The date at the top is when these counts were computed.

Can I get the list?

Yes. The first 20 are on this page; the full 40,153 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new forward email users is in the product. Counting is free.

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