Lead List Quality by Provider and Country, 2026 | BounceZero
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Lead List Quality
By Email Provider and Country Domain, 2026

One page per provider and per country domain, each with the invalid, catch-all, unknown and confirmed-valid rates from the addresses BounceZero verified for customers between April and October 2026, a month-by-month cut, why the provider behaves that way, and what to do with the segment. Providers need at least 20,000 addresses to get a page; country domains at least 5,000.

Method, limitations and the aggregate tables: Lead List Quality Benchmarks 2026. Cite as: BounceZero corpus, April to October 2026. Download the table: lead-list-quality-2026.csv (CC BY 4.0).

Email providers

Sorted by addresses verified. Freemail and ISP mailboxes dominate because business domains are too fragmented to reach the 20,000 threshold individually.

DomainAddressesInvalidCatch-allUnknownConfirmed valid
T-Online t-online.de2,088,14813.9%0.0%41.2%16.4%
Alice (TIM) alice.it1,178,2971.0%0.0%2.7%64.7%
Gmail gmail.com801,2253.5%0.0%0.0%96.0%
AT&T att.net421,29210.1%0.0%26.4%5.8%
Hotmail hotmail.com253,44516.5%0.1%0.0%70.5%
TPG tpg.com.au246,81130.1%8.9%5.1%53.9%
SBCGlobal sbcglobal.net232,3024.6%0.1%36.3%18.0%
Telefónica telefonica.net159,79442.8%0.0%8.0%48.5%
BellSouth bellsouth.net134,3844.6%0.1%43.7%15.5%
Hotmail Australia hotmail.com.au110,45292.7%0.0%3.1%2.3%
Luukku luukku.com104,99618.3%0.0%49.8%13.1%
EarthLink earthlink.net65,63610.7%0.0%86.9%1.0%
iiNet iinet.net.au64,1612.8%12.4%65.5%18.9%
Windstream windstream.net56,58249.6%0.0%0.1%50.2%
iCloud Mail icloud.com50,89573.0%0.0%4.9%20.0%
Live.nl live.nl48,10232.8%0.0%0.7%57.3%
Bbox (Bouygues Telecom) bbox.fr47,4940.0%0.0%5.5%38.1%
MindSpring mindspring.com39,02225.6%0.0%34.8%30.3%
Optimum optimum.net38,18192.9%0.0%0.8%6.0%
Xtra (Spark) xtra.co.nz36,08229.0%0.0%3.4%11.2%
BigPond (Telstra) bigpond.net.au35,2078.0%0.0%87.0%0.3%
Hotmail Netherlands hotmail.nl34,7907.2%0.0%8.7%50.3%
AOL aol.com33,27517.9%24.7%19.9%11.0%
iPrimus iprimus.com.au29,3285.8%0.0%0.0%93.9%
PeoplePC peoplepc.com25,9715.6%0.0%85.8%2.5%
SFR sfr.fr25,40328.7%0.0%16.8%42.2%
Netcom ix.netcom.com22,08432.0%0.0%35.5%29.1%
Bluewin (Swisscom) bluewin.ch21,6842.4%0.0%48.4%0.4%
Yahoo Mail yahoo.com21,0818.3%27.7%39.0%16.4%

Country domains

Country-code and generic top-level domains with at least 5,000 addresses.

DomainAddressesInvalidCatch-allUnknownConfirmed valid
.com com2,158,95516.4%4.4%14.7%59.7%
.de de2,095,44013.9%0.0%41.2%16.5%
.net net1,252,19317.7%0.6%28.8%19.9%
.it it1,193,7151.3%0.0%3.2%64.2%
.au au560,37836.5%6.3%17.6%37.3%
.fr fr119,58212.1%0.5%9.3%47.6%
.fi fi100,5164.6%0.2%22.1%59.6%
.nl nl87,30921.9%0.2%4.5%54.6%
.org org56,40124.6%12.4%25.0%36.2%
.nz nz36,77328.9%0.1%3.6%11.6%
.ch ch30,5229.3%0.3%36.0%19.6%
.be be28,0404.6%0.5%49.5%40.5%
.uk uk21,19417.0%3.7%10.6%65.0%
.edu edu17,96132.8%8.3%18.5%38.2%
.ae ae16,11410.8%1.8%14.9%47.7%
.at at15,2228.5%1.5%29.1%53.4%
.us us10,99834.1%13.6%21.9%29.1%
.se se10,1582.0%0.8%2.9%92.0%
.br br8,45015.3%12.7%12.0%58.5%
.in in7,97610.7%18.3%22.7%44.2%
.ca ca7,56115.9%6.2%13.9%54.4%
.co co6,15917.1%25.6%15.3%38.7%
.gov gov5,86624.7%18.0%22.1%34.7%

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Written by

Ayoub Lebda

Founder, BounceZero - Email-infrastructure engineer

Ayoub built BounceZero's 5-stage validation pipeline, its dedicated BGP-announced IP infrastructure, and the Patroni HA PostgreSQL cluster behind every verification. Previously built high-volume email delivery infrastructure. Trained at 1337 Benguerir (École 42 network, 2019). Open-source: bgp_analyzer.