Fake email sites ranked by Alexa, 2017–2023

نُشر: 2017-11-19 · حُدّث: 2026-08-29

For five years this page tracked where disposable-mail services sat in the Alexa ranking and republished the standings every couple of days. The ranking is gone, so the tracking is over. What survives is the record itself: 23 services, 928 measurements, from 21 November 2017 to 7 February 2023 — roughly one reading every other day for 1,904 days.

That record is worth keeping, because it can no longer be reconstructed. The service that produced these numbers no longer exists, and nothing that replaced it goes back and re-publishes what it measured in 2018. So this is now an archive page, and it is written as one.

How the field moved

Four things are visible in that picture, and none of them were obvious while the collection was running:

• The top spot never changed hands. temp-mail.org was the best-ranked service in all 64 months, and it kept improving to the end — from 7,165 at the first measurement to 1,227 at the last.
• Being early mattered less than it looks. Of the 12 services tracked from day one, 7 finished better than they started and 5 finished worse. Seventeen of the full 23 improved — but that number is flattered by the 11 services that appeared later and entered near the bottom of the range, where there was nowhere to go but up.
• A newcomer reached the top group in about a year. mail.tm first appears in November 2020 at 191,917 and was at 7,279 by January 2022. No service already on the list moved that far that fast in the whole five years.
• Falling was quieter than rising. fakemailgenerator.com went from 26,510 to 180,314 and came back to 80,574; guerrillamail.com simply drifted, losing ground almost every year without a single sharp drop.

Every service tracked

One panel per domain, all on the same axes, so the panels can be compared with each other rather than only read one at a time. A flat line means the service held its position; the shaded band on the right marks the stretch after Alexa was switched off.

The standings, as they were left

“Best” is the highest position a service ever reached in this record; “Final rank” is where it stood at the last measurement, on 7 February 2023. “Change” compares that last measurement with the service's own first one, so for the 11 services that joined after 2017 it covers less than the full five years. A lower number is a better rank throughout: ▲ means the service climbed.

Where these numbers came from

The list was never a ranking of every disposable-mail site. It was a ranking of the ones that passed a cut-off: a service entered the page when its Alexa rank was better than 200,000 and dropped off the page when it fell past that line. That is why the chart's bottom edge is exactly 200,000, and why some lines stop and start again — tempmail.net, for instance, crossed the line in both directions and only appears in 23 of the 64 months.

The cut-off has been kept exactly as it was. Removing it now would produce a longer table than the page ever showed, which would make the archive a worse record of itself, not a better one.

If you came here for a working address

A five-year-old popularity ranking is a poor way to choose one — half of these services have changed hands, changed domains or stopped since the last measurement. The generator on the front page works now, which is the only property that actually matters.

If you would rather not depend on a shared domain at all, attaching one of your own takes a single MX record, and you can check that it took effect straight away.

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