Sort an email list by country: find EU, UK and other addresses
In short: Gives each address a country hint from its domain ending (.de, .co.uk, .com.br) or a home-country mail provider (web.de, orange.fr, libero.it, seznam.cz), groups them into EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland and rest of world, and marks .com and Gmail as no signal. Limit: A country hint comes from the domain or provider, not from where the person is; most .com and Gmail addresses get no hint.
To sort an email list by country, paste it or upload the CSV here. Each address gets a country hint from its domain ending (.de, .fr, .co.uk) or from a mail provider that serves mostly one country (web.de, orange.fr, libero.it). Addresses are grouped into EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland and the rest, and .com or Gmail addresses are marked as no signal.
Price: this tool is free. Checking a whole email list is from $9/mo, and the first 100 checks are free with Google, no card. See pricing
Sample result
5 of 11 addresses point to an EU or EEA country, from the domain ending or home mail provider.
- EU / EEA hint
- 5 addresses
- UK hint
- 1
- Countries
- 8
What this means for you
A hint for consent rules, not where the person lives; .com and Gmail carry no country.
- Country from the domain ending
- Home providers: web.de, orange.fr, libero.it…
- .io, .co, .ai read as no country
- EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland groups
- GDPR
- Country
- CSV
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How do I group an email list by country?
- Paste your addresses, one per line, or upload a CSV; the email column is found automatically and the other columns are kept.
- Press Group by country to see how many addresses point to each country and region.
- Press a region (EU, UK, No country signal…) to see only those addresses.
- Download the whole list with country_code, country, region and signal columns, or only the region you picked.
Example
- You enter
- 11 addresses including
max@firma-example.de,claire@orange.fr,sam@shop-example.co.uk,kim@gmail.comandleo@startup-example.io. - You get
- 5 EU or EEA hints (Czechia, Germany, France and Italy, plus Norway in the EEA), 1 UK, 2 rest of world (Brazil, Japan) and 3 with no country signal: the Gmail,
.ioand.comaddresses. - Limits
- Runs in your browser with no lookups and no row cap; an uploaded file can be up to 25 MB.
Can you tell what country an email address is from?
Sometimes, and only as a hint. A domain ending that belongs to a country, such as .de or .co.uk, is the strongest signal in the address itself; the IANA root zone database lists which country each two-letter ending belongs to. Some mail providers also serve mostly one country: web.de and GMX in Germany, Orange and Free in France, Libero in Italy, Seznam in the Czech Republic.
Most business and personal addresses carry no country at all: .com, .net, Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo are used everywhere. Some country endings are sold worldwide as words (.io, .co, .ai, .me, .tv), so the tool treats them as no signal rather than guessing. A German company can use a .com, and a person on gmx.de can live anywhere.
How do I find EU contacts on my email list for GDPR?
Group the list here and press the EU and EEA groups to see the addresses whose domain or provider points to an EU or EEA country. That is a useful first cut, not a legal test: GDPR Article 3 applies to people who are in the EU, whatever their email address looks like, and the UK has its own UK GDPR and PECR rules.
For the addresses with no country signal, your sign-up form, CRM country field or IP data is a better source. When in doubt, treat a contact as covered. The GDPR and B2B cold email guide and email verification and GDPR cover what the rules ask for.
Why split a list by country before sending?
Because the rules and the timing differ. Consent rules differ between the EU, the UK, Canada (CASL) and the US (CAN-SPAM), send times differ by time zone, and a message in the reader's language does better. Splitting by country lets you send each group the right message at the right time, or leave a group out.
Country-code domains also point to where the mail server is likely run, which matters for some national providers' filters. Whatever the country, a list that bounces hurts the sender in every inbox, so check the addresses before the first send.
Is this better than sorting by the domain ending in Excel?
| This tool | Excel formula | |
|---|---|---|
| Two-part endings (.co.uk, .com.br) | Read as the country | Needs extra logic |
| Home mail providers (web.de, orange.fr) | Read as the country | Not covered |
| Generic-use endings (.io, .co, .ai) | No signal | Read as a country |
| EU, EEA, UK groups | Built in | Needs a country list |
The ending alone in Excel 365: =TEXTAFTER(A2,".",-1).
Who uses this tool, and for what?
- Cold emailers
- Pull EU and UK leads out of a US-focused list before a campaign, or send them a separate sequence with the right opt-out wording.
- Newsletter owners
- See how much of a list sits in each country before choosing send times or a language for a welcome series.
- Agencies
- Show a client how much of their bought list falls under EU rules before anyone sends to it.
- Ecommerce teams
- Split customer exports by country to match shipping regions and local promotions.
What can’t this tool tell you?
- A country hint comes from the domain or provider, not from where the person is; most .com and Gmail addresses get no hint.
- Endings sold worldwide (.io, .co, .ai, .me, .tv) are treated as no signal, even when used by a company in that country.
- The home-provider list covers the larger national providers only.
- It doesn't decide whether GDPR, UK GDPR or CASL applies to anyone; that depends on the person and the purpose.
- It can't tell which mailboxes still exist.
Common questions
- How can I tell which country an email address is from?
- Look at the ending after the last dot: .de is Germany, .fr France, .co.uk the UK. Some providers, such as web.de or orange.fr, also point to one country. .com and Gmail tell you nothing.
- Is a .eu email address in the EU?
- The .eu ending is for people and organisations in the EU, EEA and a few other countries, so the tool groups .eu addresses as EU without naming a country.
- Does GDPR apply to every .de or .fr address?
- GDPR applies to people in the EU, not to domain endings. A domain ending is a hint about where someone is, so use it as a first cut and check the rest.
- Why is .io marked as no country?
- .io, .co, .ai, .me, .tv and a few others are country endings that are sold worldwide as generic names, so they don't say where someone is.
- Is my list uploaded?
- No. The hints come from a list built into the page and nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to check the addresses afterwards.
Sources
A tidy list can still be full of dead addresses.
Extracting, deduplicating and syntax checks all work on the text of an address. None of them can tell whether the mailbox exists. Only the server that hosts it can answer that, through an SMTP check, and that is what the paid product does.
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