jwzDec 9

Today in Email Hegemony.

Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the @dnalounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story.

73.0% gmail.com
8.5% yahoo.com
7.1% icloud.com
2.6% hotmail.com
0.7% outlook.com
0.6% aol.com
0.5% comcast.net
0.5% me.com
0.4% sbcglobal.net
0.3% live.com
5.8% everything else

https://jwz.org/b/yk0O

Show threadJames Henstridge
@jwz And presumably a decent proportion of "everything else" has a Google or Microsoft MX record.
Dec 9 at 3:43amWeb
Show threadjwzDec 9
@jamesh Various local EDUs make a strong showing in there, but yes, presumably.
Show threadJames HenstridgeDec 9

@jwz it looks like all four of the big universities in my city are on Office 365 mail these days.

That's quite a change from back when I was in uni, where each individual department ran their own independent mail systems.

Show threadDominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Dec 9
@jamesh @jwz Back when rocks were warm, I adminned a mail server which had a public address of the form department.site.company.tld.
This was a bit of a pain when people moved departments, so they did eventually set up simple company.tld mailboxes too, and people decided which to forward where.