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This is anecdotal but here's the breakdown of top 10 e-mail providers from my database, does not look like a monopoly:

    MariaDB > SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(email, '@', -1) AS domain, COUNT(*) AS cnt FROM accounts GROUP BY domain HAVING domain != '' ORDER BY cnt DESC LIMIT 10;
    +-------------+-------+
    | domain      | cnt   |
    +-------------+-------+
    | hotmail.com | 38015 |
    | gmail.com   | 16280 |
    | yahoo.com   |  4080 |
    | o2.pl       |  2321 |
    | wp.pl       |  2206 |
    | live.com    |  1415 |
    | outlook.com |   814 |
    | interia.pl  |   609 |
    | hotmail.es  |   590 |
    | live.se     |   521 |
    +-------------+-------+
    10 rows in set (0.044 sec)


That's helpful data, thank you. Sounds like it may depend on the service. (I'm genuinely shocked to see that many hotmail addresses, and can't help but wonder if there are correlations with other factors.)




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