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Non-EU vendorDomain Name RegistrarsHeadquarters: US

Name.com: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Name.com is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. Through its website you can search for, register, renew and transfer domain names, including in bulk, and find premium and expiring domains. An API is available for professionals and domain investors. Alongside domains, Name.com sells web hosting, cloud hosting and WordPress hosting, Titan Email, Google Workspace, SSL certificates and the Wix website builder. The service is delivered entirely online as SaaS.

Name.com is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, in the United States, and is part of Identity Digital, a US company formerly known as Donuts. It therefore falls under US jurisdiction and can be subject to requests under the CLOUD Act. The sources consulted do not state where customer data is stored. The software is not open source and there is no self-hosting option. European organisations that want to keep their domain portfolio under European law may prefer a registrar that is established in the EU and owned by a European party.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
  • 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 5, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryDomain Name Registrars
TypeProduct
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Name.com

The European alternatives to Name.com come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Name.com

Name.com 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.

Name.com hosts data in EU, 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.

Name.com 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 Name.com 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 Name.com?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Name.com?

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

Is Name.com GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Name.com is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 5, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Domain Name Registrars

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