Updated · Volt Ghost team
naver.com MX: one primary, three backups
Read on 14 November 2026 through Cloudflare's DNS-over-HTTPS service.
| Priority | Host | IPv4 | Network (Team Cymru) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | mx1.mail.naver.com | 223.130.202.36 | NAVER Cloud, AS23576, KR |
| 20 | mx4.mail.naver.com | 202.131.24.28 | NAVER Cloud, AS23576, KR |
| 20 | mx5.mail.naver.com | 202.131.26.30 | NAVER Cloud, AS23576, KR |
| 20 | mx6.mail.naver.com | 202.131.24.29 | NAVER Cloud, AS23576, KR |
Each host answered with a single IPv4 address and no IPv6, so a sender without IPv4 cannot reach Naver. Naver receives on its own cloud network rather than a third-party provider, and its DNS is served by its own ns1 to ns3.naver.com. The numbering has a gap: mx2 and mx3.mail.naver.com returned NXDOMAIN, so tooling that guesses host names will go wrong; read the MX set instead.
Sender authentication on naver.com
| Mechanism | Record | What it said on 14 November |
|---|---|---|
| SPF | apex TXT | eight ip4: entries (seven ranges and one single address), no includes, ending ~all |
| DMARC | _dmarc.naver.com | v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected] |
| MTA-STS | _mta-sts.naver.com | not published |
| TLS-RPT | _smtp._tls.naver.com | not published |
- IP-only SPF: listing address ranges directly costs no extra DNS lookups, so the record stays far below SPF's ten-lookup limit. The trade-off is that every change of sending range needs an edit to this record.
- Monitoring-only DMARC: reports are collected, but receivers are not told to quarantine or reject spoofed naver.com mail. QQ Mail sets qq.com to quarantine and Yahoo to reject, while Gmail also keeps gmail.com at p=none.
- Kakao's Daum for comparison: hanmail.net, Korea's other large consumer domain, used four MX hosts all at priority 10 and also published DMARC p=none on the same day.
When Naver's records come up
Korean customers often sign up with naver.com, so these hosts appear in delivery logs for shops and apps with users in Korea. A deferral from mx1.mail.naver.com followed by acceptance on mx4 to mx6 is normal fallback, not an error. If a sign-up code to a Naver address goes missing, start with verification code not received. On a company domain, MX hosts ending in .mail.naver.com show up in our email host lookup as Naver Mail.
Naver and temp mail filters
Because the MX points at Naver's own network, disposable-email screening treats naver.com as an ordinary provider. Throwaway domains tend to share a few receiving servers instead, and that shared server is one of the signals explained in how sites detect disposable email. If you only need an inbox for one sign-up and do not want a long-term account, a burner email fits better; for anything you will log in to again, use a permanent provider. Check a single address with the disposable email checker.
Questions
What is the MX record for naver.com?
naver.com has four MX records: mx1.mail.naver.com at priority 10 and mx4, mx5 and mx6.mail.naver.com at priority 20. Senders use mx1 and fall back to the other three, which share the load.
Why are there no mx2 or mx3 hosts for Naver?
They are simply not used. On 14 November 2026 mx2.mail.naver.com and mx3.mail.naver.com did not exist in DNS (NXDOMAIN), so only the four names in the MX set matter.
Does naver.com use DMARC?
It publishes a DMARC record with p=none and aggregate reports sent to a worksmobile.com mailbox. p=none means receivers are asked to report, not to block, mail that fails.
Is naver.com a disposable email domain?
No. naver.com accounts are permanent Naver accounts, and the domain is not on the community disposable-domain list our checker uses.
