EU sovereignNetwork & Firewall ManagementHeadquarters: SE

Netnod: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Netnod is a Swedish non-profit that operates internet infrastructure for the Nordic region and beyond. Its services include internet exchange points where networks interconnect, secondary DNS for enterprises and top-level domains, NTP and precision time services, fibre transport over a DWDM network, and the i.root-servers.net root server, which it has operated since 2000. It also offers domain management and registrar services. The company describes itself as neutral and reinvests its profits in its mission.

Netnod's registered office is in Stockholm, and its contact address is in Solna, Sweden. The website names no foreign parent company. The privacy page states that data collected is kept on premise and used only to improve the services. It does not mention the GDPR, and it does not describe hosting in detail. For European organisations the key question is which data the DNS and time services retain; the website links a DNS data-retention policy, which should be read before use.

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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 11, 2026

Headquarters	SE (EU)	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	No	Vendor-stated
Category	Network & Firewall Management
Type	Product
Website	netnod.se ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Netnod

The European alternatives to Netnod 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 Netnod

Netnod is headquartered in SE 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 Netnod scores best on data residency.

Netnod 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 Netnod 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 Netnod?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Netnod include Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Allegro Packets and Arelion. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Netnod?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Netnod include BIRD Internet Routing Daemon and Deciso OPNsense. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Netnod is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Netnod 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 11, 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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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Digital sovereignty in Network & Firewall Management

Network & Firewall Management: Central management of firewalls, switches and Wi-Fi, network access control (NAC), load balancing and DNS/DHCP/IPAM. 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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