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Non-EU vendorCDN, DNS & DomainsHeadquarters: US

DNS Made Easy: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

DNS Made Easy provides managed DNS services for businesses of any size. The service is hosted and operated by the vendor, so customers use its authoritative DNS infrastructure rather than running name servers themselves. According to the vendor, the service protects against cyber threats and offers high availability with low latency; these are its own claims. In June 2022 DigiCert acquired DNS Made Easy together with affiliated brands, including Constellix, and the acquired solutions continue to be offered.

DNS Made Easy is part of DigiCert, a company headquartered in Lehi, Utah, United States, which is backed by private equity investors. Because the group is US-owned and US-based, US law, including the CLOUD Act, may apply to DNS data it holds. The vendor's website does not state where its name servers or customer data are located and describes no European data processing commitment. For a European organisation, DNS records and traffic data should be assessed against its data residency rules, and an EU-based managed DNS provider is an alternative to compare.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to DNS Made Easy

The European alternatives to DNS Made Easy 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 DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

DNS Made Easy hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

DNS Made Easy 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 DNS Made Easy 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 DNS Made Easy?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to DNS Made Easy?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to DNS Made Easy 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 DNS Made Easy GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

DNS Made Easy is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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