EU sovereignDomain Name RegistrarsHeadquarters: FR

BookMyName: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

BookMyName is a French domain registrar offering registration, renewal, transfer and WHOIS lookup for domain names. The service is a trade name of Scaleway SAS, formerly Online SAS. The product page does not mention hosting. Orders are placed online, and the page shows membership of AFNIC, the French registry for .fr. The site links to contract terms and a company description page.

Scaleway SAS has its address in Paris and is a subsidiary of the French Iliad Group. Its privacy policy refers to the GDPR, offers a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) and states that the company seeks to minimise data transfers outside the European Union. For some products it describes hosting in Europe or France. For a European organisation this is a French provider within a French group; the hosting location should be checked product by product.

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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 12, 2026

Headquarters	FR (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
Category	Domain Name Registrars
Type	Product
Website	bookmyname.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to BookMyName

The European alternatives to BookMyName 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 BookMyName

BookMyName 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.

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

BookMyName 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 BookMyName 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 BookMyName?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to BookMyName 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 BookMyName?

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

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

BookMyName is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes BookMyName 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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