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easyname: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

easyname is an Austrian provider of domain names and web hosting based in Vienna. The company registers and transfers domain names for more than 480 extensions, including .at, .ch and .eu, and provides custom email addresses with spam and virus filters, SSD hosting with Let's Encrypt certificates and automatic backups, a website builder with shop functions, and VPS or servers running Windows or Linux. easyname also offers help with migration, web development and WordPress maintenance. The services are delivered online as a hosted service; the software is not open source.

easyname GmbH is based in Vienna, Austria. According to the company, its servers are in two data centres in Vienna, connected by fibre, and it holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification. In 2020 easyname was integrated into the dogado group; the group.one website describes easyname as part of group.one. The pages consulted do not give a shareholder list. For a European organisation this means an Austrian provider with hosting in the EU, within a European hosting group.

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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 5, 2026

Headquarters	AT (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	easyname.com ↗

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The European alternatives to easyname 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 easyname

easyname is headquartered in AT 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 easyname scores best on data residency.

easyname 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 easyname 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 easyname?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to easyname?

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

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

easyname is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes easyname 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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