Microsoft wins the inbox battle (for now)

If you have stopped by Spam Resource or Wombatmail recently, you might have noticed a few changes around here. It’s been updates on updates on updates recently. Updated design, templates, styling, code, cleaning up cruft left and right. And, also, updating the data shared over on Wombatmail.That data refresh brings us right to the latest snapshot over on Wombatmail’s Ranking Mailbox Providers by MX page, calculating counts for where inbound mail goes for the top domains.For the first time in a while, Microsoft has claimed the number one spot in our "ten million domains" dataset as the leading mailbox provider for business email, corporate and personal 1:1 mailbox domains.To give some background on how this data works: I take the top ten million domains as ranked by host.io and parse their highest-priority MX records, collapsing specific hostnames down to their organizational domain (for instance, mapping microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com to outlook.com). Out of those ten…

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