Dataweaz

sendgrid.net

Summary

Registrar
MarkMonitor Inc.
Status
clientDeleteProhibited
Created on
April 20, 2009
Expires on
April 20, 2027
Name servers
ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns15.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com
Mail servers
mx.sendgrid.net, mx2.sendgrid.net
DMARC
Reject
SPF
Soft

Spoofing protection (DMARC)

Reject

E-mails spoofing this domain are rejected.

DMARC tells mail servers what to do with an e-mail that claims to come from sendgrid.net but fails SPF and DKIM checks.

Policy
Reject
Subdomain policy
Reject
Messages covered
100%
DKIM alignment
Relaxed
SPF alignment
Relaxed
Aggregate reports
[email protected]
Failure reports
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Record

v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; rua=mailto:[email protected]; rf=afrf; pct=100

Authorized senders (SPF)

Soft

E-mails sent by any other server are accepted but flagged as suspicious.

SPF lists the servers allowed to send e-mails for sendgrid.net.

RuleValueResult
ip4167.89.0.0/17Allowed
ip4208.117.48.0/20Allowed
ip450.31.32.0/19Allowed
ip4198.37.144.0/20Allowed
ip4198.21.0.0/21Allowed
ip4192.254.112.0/20Allowed
ip4168.245.0.0/17Allowed
ip4149.72.0.0/16Allowed
ip4159.183.0.0/16Allowed
ip4134.128.64.0/18Allowed
ip4159.26.176.0/20Allowed
includeab.sendgrid.netAllowed
all—Suspicious

Top-level DNS lookups: 1 of 10 allowed

Record

v=spf1 ip4:167.89.0.0/17 ip4:208.117.48.0/20 ip4:50.31.32.0/19 ip4:198.37.144.0/20 ip4:198.21.0.0/21 ip4:192.254.112.0/20 ip4:168.245.0.0/17 ip4:149.72.0.0/16 ip4:159.183.0.0/16 ip4:134.128.64.0/18 ip4:159.26.176.0/20 include:ab.sendgrid.net ~all

E-mail signing (DKIM)

DKIM keys published by sendgrid.net under the most common selectors. Other keys may exist under selectors specific to each sending service.

SelectorLikely serviceKeyStatus
s1SendGridRSA 2048 bitsActive
s2SendGridRSA 2048 bitsActive

MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC: the e-mail records

Four DNS records make a domain's e-mail work. MX says where e-mails sent to sendgrid.net arrive; SPF, DKIM and DMARC let mail servers check that an e-mail claiming to come from sendgrid.net was really sent by this domain, which protects it against spoofing.

MX

An MX (Mail Exchanger) record designates a server that receives e-mails sent to the domain. When someone writes to an @sendgrid.net address, their mail server queries the DNS for the domain's MX records, then delivers the message to the server they point to.

Example record

sendgrid.net  MX  10 mx1.sendgrid.net.
sendgrid.net  MX  20 mx2.sendgrid.net.

What the record contains

10, 20
Priority: the server with the lowest number is tried first. Servers with equal priority share the load.
mx1.sendgrid.net.
Host name of the mail server. It must point to an A or AAAA record: an IP address or an alias (CNAME) is not allowed here.
0 .
An MX "0 .", called a null MX, declares that the domain accepts no e-mail: sending servers give up at once instead of retrying.

Declaring at least two servers with different priorities avoids losing e-mails during an outage: sending servers retry for several days and fall back on the backup server. Without any MX, they try to deliver directly to the IP address of the domain.

SPF

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a TXT record listing the servers allowed to send e-mails on behalf of the domain. The receiving server checks that the sender is on this list. The final "all" rule says what to do with other servers: reject them (-all), flag their e-mails as suspicious (~all) or make no decision (?all).

Example record

sendgrid.net  TXT  "v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com ip4:192.0.2.10 -all"

What the record contains

v=spf1
Identifies the record as an SPF policy. It must come first.
ip4, ip6
Allows a specific IP address or an address range, for example ip4:192.0.2.0/24.
a, mx
Allows the addresses of the domain itself (A record) or those of its mail servers (MX).
include
Allows the servers of another domain, usually a sending service: include:_spf.google.com for Google Workspace.
-all, ~all
Final rule, applied to every other server. Its qualifier decides what happens to them: - rejects them, ~ flags their e-mails as suspicious, ? makes no decision, + accepts them (avoid it).

A domain must publish only one SPF record, and its evaluation cannot exceed 10 DNS lookups (include, a, mx, exists, redirect). Beyond that, mail servers treat it as invalid.

DKIM

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signs every outgoing e-mail with a private key. The matching public key is published in a TXT record at selector._domainkey.sendgrid.net, so the recipient can check that the message really comes from the domain and was not altered on the way. The selector is chosen by each sending service and cannot be guessed: Dataweaz checks the most common ones (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Mailchimp, SendGrid…), so a key published under another selector may exist without appearing here.

Example record

google._domainkey.sendgrid.net  TXT  "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA…"

What the record contains

v=DKIM1
Protocol version. Optional but recommended, in which case it must come first.
k
Key algorithm: rsa, the most common, or ed25519.
p
Public key, base64-encoded. An empty value means the key has been revoked.
t
Flags: y marks a key in testing, whose failures must not be penalized; s forbids its use for subdomains.

Each sending service publishes its key under its own selector (google, selector1, k1…), which allows several keys and seamless rotation. A 2048-bit RSA key is recommended today.

DMARC

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) builds on SPF and DKIM. Published on _dmarc.sendgrid.net, it tells mail servers what to do with an e-mail that fails these checks (let it through, send it to spam or reject it) and where to send reports.

Example record

_dmarc.sendgrid.net  TXT  "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:[email protected]; adkim=r; aspf=r"

What the record contains

v=DMARC1
Identifies the record as a DMARC policy. It must come first.
p
Policy applied to e-mails that fail the checks: none (monitoring only), quarantine (spam folder) or reject.
sp
Subdomain policy. Without it, subdomains follow the domain's policy.
rua
Address that receives daily aggregate reports about e-mails sent on behalf of the domain, whether they pass the checks or not.
ruf
Address that receives detailed failure reports, message by message. Few providers still send them.
pct
Percentage of e-mails subject to the policy, for a gradual rollout. 100 by default.
adkim, aspf
DKIM and SPF alignment: r (relaxed, a subdomain of the same domain is enough) or s (strict, the domain must be identical).

To roll out DMARC without blocking legitimate e-mails, start with p=none and an rua address, analyze the reports to find every service sending on behalf of the domain, then move to quarantine and finally to reject.

DNS records of sendgrid.net

IP addresses (A and AAAA)

An A record maps the domain name to an IPv4 address: the address of the server that browsers contact to display the website. The AAAA record does the same for an IPv6 address. A domain can have several of them to spread visits across several servers.

Name servers (NS)

NS records designate the authoritative DNS servers of the domain: they answer every question about its other records (A, MX, TXT…). They are provided by the registrar, the hosting provider or a dedicated DNS service, and several servers are declared so that the domain keeps working if one of them fails.

ServerIP address
ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com208.80.125.4
ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com208.80.124.4
ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com208.80.127.4
ns15.dnsmadeeasy.com208.94.149.4
ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com208.94.148.4
ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com208.80.126.4

Mail servers (MX)

MX records point to the servers that receive e-mails sent to the domain, that is to @sendgrid.net addresses. Each server has a priority: the one with the lowest number is tried first, the others take over if it fails. Without an MX record, the domain cannot receive e-mails.

PriorityServerIP address
10mx.sendgrid.net15.222.160.229
20mx2.sendgrid.net18.224.101.244

TXT records

TXT records hold free text. They are used to prove ownership of the domain to online services (Google, Microsoft, Facebook…) and to publish e-mail security rules: SPF on the domain itself, DMARC on _dmarc.sendgrid.net.

NameContent
sendgrid.netmailru-verification: 2e3995fa8a7d00e0
sendgrid.netgoogle-site-verification=1UEf8ey-RibUjY6gnpqIZFjWNqMknmeyeHz1zTmj0DE
sendgrid.netutjqqjvmeadmlva41ectre9gd3
sendgrid.netcemmvnbghpsb500d7c19e35fgm
sendgrid.netl8bqrl0r33q4joeb79q8uuj009
sendgrid.nettdjhrpaflcikf52iqtn9rnggr9
sendgrid.net6ifgg010qg6mquqt5lodun8qds
sendgrid.netp8bnb2lp424dkl3c4io1aemiei
sendgrid.netyahoo-verification-key=TrufSXS+dfythA5AIMbLUnkX38rjr1HR93gbqHUSY74=
sendgrid.net5m3r13nvilmq8tgf5foh6ki1uv
sendgrid.neti52uk89q4nfe1mpgqv5qsmsj3j.
sendgrid.netv=spf1 ip4:167.89.0.0/17 ip4:208.117.48.0/20 ip4:50.31.32.0/19 ip4:198.37.144.0/20 ip4:198.21.0.0/21 ip4:192.254.112.0/20 ip4:168.245.0.0/17 ip4:149.72.0.0/16 ip4:159.183.0.0/16 ip4:134.128.64.0/18 ip4:159.26.176.0/20 include:ab.sendgrid.net ~all
_dmarc.sendgrid.netv=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; rua=mailto:[email protected]; rf=afrf; pct=100
s1._domainkey.sendgrid.netk=rsa; t=s; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAwzNsUhqO6qMM/botbDwUHE/zCmOmgl66HSOVP44Xc6/XG5UlgaYleREQHLjxYGpZVPPwHpotux3BquJY8RloNy+mCnVAfx9xsqE+ENCU5/Qr9AbeFLO/ckUARaNUlSaLuxs70Cs2raA+RL3I5Info7doju0Fy1RUyHOZMGmGbmRSFaZd6VQ3qjmv+IT8AOYjiOqr/Izr8FW4PUkqKSY+120gZexOW7kBhHesWdsS9YjDePXCZ40uwKr5y9NMs+hQG4rnrMoCMS4QUCqucpL/saG4kUt+ocEISWx7dOIZR22AU4CfVzJsc1iFA7e8HWPUj5nWKDLlR1zjr7YFA6n43wIDAQAB
s2._domainkey.sendgrid.netk=rsa; t=s; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA3EAneBaw/aQ8z7WnhSN1eJkaa1ofvaRpLMWsZpqRHevLG/SV4kX3QlM2o9nKcK1NbV7oc3e2EoOl8877h8p49shP38jnUsDraGeGUVSTaJsX/WDc3naTK1MF6Mkv5QtR+ZIjQDt0wRlnW7D69MsGh2QZKqWYXTzcOLn1BVTWJYFp0asrhgqbn4UCyLr3Ygg8I5hiL2a/xTEE1SkE59hDoO/ok1vWqiowWmW211A/2iISmlPPxdrjgBmRgYeBDA3tAE+/ct4os4H4mecCVoNz2G2AM64905Rx06OCygixCCP8fRuxWjIMtXDYByzVO+kbI4qQYN2eee0hhT8YnJ7i3wIDAQAB

Related IP addresses

IPv4 addresses used by sendgrid.net: website, name servers, mail servers and senders authorized by SPF.

WHOIS of the domain sendgrid.net

Domain Name: SENDGRID.NET
   Registry Domain ID: 1552841547_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
   Updated Date: 2022-12-07T05:18:08Z
   Creation Date: 2009-04-20T09:09:23Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2027-04-20T09:09:23Z
   Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
   Registrar IANA ID: 292
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.2086851750
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: NS10.DNSMADEEASY.COM
   Name Server: NS11.DNSMADEEASY.COM
   Name Server: NS12.DNSMADEEASY.COM
   Name Server: NS13.DNSMADEEASY.COM
   Name Server: NS14.DNSMADEEASY.COM
   Name Server: NS15.DNSMADEEASY.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
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