EU sovereignDomain Name RegistrarsHeadquarters: FR

Amen: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Amen is a French domain registrar and web host operated by Agence des médias numériques SASU in Paris. Its range covers a broad selection of domain extensions, Linux and Windows hosting, WordPress hosting, email, Microsoft 365, VPS and dedicated servers, SSL certificates, website builders and brand protection. The services are ordered online.

Amen is a subsidiary of team.blue, whose group seat is in Ghent, Belgium, and which an announcement by Axcel describes as continuing to be backed by the British private equity firm Hg. The French company gives its address in Paris. The website refers to compliance with EU regulations but does not name the GDPR, and it does not state where data is stored. For a European organisation this is a French provider inside a Belgian group, so the hosting location and processing terms should be requested from the provider.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 13, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	BEVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Domain Name Registrars
Type	Product
Website	amen.fr ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Amen

The European alternatives to Amen come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Amen

Amen is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in BE, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Amen scores best on data residency.

Amen is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Amen together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Amen?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Amen include 101domain, Active24 and Afnic. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Amen?

Our list of EU alternatives to Amen is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Amen GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Amen is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Amen an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 13, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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