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Aruba Domains: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Aruba is an Italian provider of domain registration, web hosting and cloud services. Through the company you can register and manage domain names, including brand protection for your own domain, and take hosting plans with SSL certificates, email, Microsoft 365 on your own domain and a website builder. Aruba also offers public and private cloud, VPS, bare-metal servers and VMware environments. According to Wikipedia, the company is also the official registry for the .cloud extension. The services are delivered online as a hosted service; the software is not open source.

Aruba S.p.A. is headquartered in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo), Italy. The company states that it owns seven data centres, in Italy and the Czech Republic, supplemented by partner data centres in Europe, including Frankfurt, London, Paris and Warsaw. The sources consulted show no foreign parent company. For a European organisation this means a provider and infrastructure within Europe, with Italian and European regulation as the framework.

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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 1, 2026

Headquarters	IT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Domain Name Registrars
Type	Product
Website	aruba.it ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Aruba Domains

The European alternatives to Aruba Domains come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Aruba Domains

Aruba Domains is headquartered in IT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

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

Aruba Domains 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 Aruba Domains 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 Aruba Domains?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Aruba Domains?

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

Is Aruba Domains GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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