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Gandi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Gandi is a French company that registers domain names and also provides web hosting, email and TLS/SSL certificates. Its portfolio covers more than eight hundred domain extensions, hosting for WordPress, PrestaShop and Nextcloud, GandiCloud VPS servers based on OpenStack, block storage, Anycast DNS with DNSSEC, and a public API with Terraform support. The services are delivered as SaaS, and a reseller programme is available.

Gandi SAS is headquartered in Paris. Montefiore Investment became a major shareholder in 2019, and in 2023 Gandi and Total Webhosting Solutions formed the Your.Online group. According to Gandi, websites are hosted in France or Luxembourg, and the company states that it holds ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 certification. The services are not open source. For a European organisation this means a provider under EU law with hosting inside the EU; the group's ownership structure is still relevant for a complete assessment.

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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 2, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	NLVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Domain Name Registrars
Type	Product
Website	gandi.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 Gandi

The European alternatives to Gandi 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 Gandi

Gandi 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. The ultimate owner is based in NL, also within Europe.

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

Gandi 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 Gandi 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 Gandi?

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

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

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

Gandi is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Gandi 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 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): gandi.net/contracts
Security page / trust center: gandi.net/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

ISO/IEC 27001Vendor-statedISO 22301Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Domain Name Registrars

Domain Name Registrars: Companies that register and manage internet domain names. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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