I'm looking for data about #email hosting "market share", and could use some pointers; If you know of a source that matches the following description, I'd appreciate it!

My ideal data source would have a list of email providers and an estimate of how many users (ideally active but I'll take what I can get) each one has.

Some properties I need:
* It needs to understand that email domain and hosting provider are not the same; eg. my work email uses our university domain, but is really Outlook, I need that counted as Outlook
* It would ideally be updated on a frequent basis, bonus points if I can get some level of historical data
* It should capture at least some of the 'long tail' of the email hosts beyond just the giant ones, but I understand that no list like this can possibly be exhaustive
* I would prefer that it be free; I'm willing to pay some, but this is for a personal side project, so I'm not paying for the ones meant for "email marketers", and I can't agree to any ToS that would prevent me from sharing at least bits of the data publicly

Thanks! Boots appreciated for reach.

From @avani :

"Who here do I know that hosts their own webpages or blogs? A postdoc colleague and I would like to ask a few fast questions about your traffic patterns over the last 5 years.

(please reshare for reach thank you!)

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What we need is, broadly, historical request logs. I want to know how the request landscape is changing, particularly repeat requests to otherwise cold content."

https://bsky.app/profile/avani.bsky.social/post/3lxzlwogl4c2m

:boosts_appreciated:

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There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!