EU sovereignCDN, DNS & DomainsHeadquarters: BG

ClouDNS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ClouDNS is a managed DNS hosting service. It lets organisations host their domains' DNS zones on the vendor's servers, with an anycast DNS network, DNSSEC, DNS failover and GeoDNS, and an optional DDoS-protected tier. Related services include DNS and uptime monitoring, domain registration, secondary and dynamic DNS, reverse DNS, and white-label DNS for hosting companies. The service is delivered as software as a service, managed through a web interface.

ClouDNS is operated by Cloud DNS Ltd., based in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the European Union. The vendor lists anycast points of presence in Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Africa and Oceania, so DNS records are served from many countries, while the operator itself is an EU company. ClouDNS is proprietary and not open source. Its privacy policy states that some third-party providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area, subject to standard contractual clauses or adequacy decisions. For a European organisation, DNS zone data is public by nature, but account and log data deserve a check against the privacy policy.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
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-645
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	BG (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	CDN, DNS & Domains
Type	Product
Website	cloudns.net ↗

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 ClouDNS

The European alternatives to ClouDNS 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 ClouDNS

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

ClouDNS hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

ClouDNS 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 ClouDNS 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 ClouDNS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to ClouDNS include Bunny.net, deSEC and Gcore. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to ClouDNS?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to ClouDNS include deSEC, Knot DNS and Knot Resolver. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

ClouDNS is headquartered in BG (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes ClouDNS 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 9, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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