European email providers mapped

For this research, we’re focusing on e-mail. Especially in Scandinavia and the Benelux, Microsoft has established a strong prevalence. Purely based on the MX-records, we learn that 72% of Belgian municipalities run Microsoft mail servers and 60% of the Dutch municipalities. For Scandinavia, it’s 64% in Norway and 57% in Sweden. In Finland, it’s a whopping 77% if the cities that are being served by Microsoft.

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At the same time, countries like Germany – known for its strong hacker culture and cybersecurity awareness – land at mearly 4% running Microsoft. In Hungary too, they land on hardly 3% and in Bulgaria they are surpassed by Google, together only having 4% of the mail-share.

So many list where Scandinavia is on top and south-east Europe is on the bottom, but not with this lol. I guess this is the first time i see a benefit of the Sovjet occupation of eastern Europe.

Map image in the header of the article, in big if you want to look at it better (especially on mobile)

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Wow very interesting.

So, I don't know how their process works exactly. But for example "Tecklenburg" is labelled as domestic, but it's mail domain starts with "owa.". Isn't owa an indicator of Microsoft email?

Microshaft 🤖