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Hornetsecurity

Hornetsecurity receives mail for 11 of 9,971 popular domains we measured in November 2026. Below: the records it needs and how its customers actually set them.

0.1%of measured domains11 of 9,971
0.2%of domains that receive mail
11use it as primary MX
45.5%customers enforce DMARCp=quarantine or p=reject

Correct setup for Hornetsecurity

MX hosts are assigned per customer, for example mx-gate<NN>-hz<N>.hornetsecurity.com.

DMARC

Publish a TXT record at _dmarc.<domain> once SPF and DKIM pass for all mail you send, start with p=none and a reporting address, then move to p=quarantine or p=reject:

v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc-reports@<domain>

Provider site: https://www.hornetsecurity.com/

How Hornetsecurity customers configure email security

11 customer domains in the sample (accent bars) compared with all 9,971 measured domains (grey bars).

SPF record 100.0%
all measured 75.7%
SPF -all (hard fail) 45.5%
all measured 37.7%
DMARC record 90.9%
all measured 68.0%
DMARC enforced 45.5%
all measured 50.9%
DMARC p=reject 27.3%
all measured 31.4%
MTA-STS 18.2%
all measured 3.0%

Well-known domains using Hornetsecurity

The highest-ranked domains in the sample whose MX records point to Hornetsecurity.

anydesk.comheise.dewatchguard.comtagesspiegel.depagina12.com.ardeutschlandfunk.deheute.attibia.comcricketworld.compoco.devisx.net

Check one yourself:

MX host names seen

Customer-specific parts replaced by <domain> and digits by <n>.

MX host patternDomains
mx<n>.hornetsecurity.com10
mx-cluster-usa<n>.hornetsecurity.com1

Source: our own scan of November 2026 (2026-11-11), 9,971 of the top 10,000 domains of the Tranco list Y895G that answered in DNS. Method and data.