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Non-EU vendorDomain Name RegistrarsHeadquarters: US

Network Solutions: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Network Solutions is a domain name registrar that also offers web hosting, web design, search engine marketing, SSL certificates and email hosting. It was founded in 1979 in Washington, D.C., as a technology consulting firm. From the early 1990s it ran the .com, .net and .org registry under US government contracts; after ICANN was formed in 1998, the registry function and retail registration were separated. In April 2025, Web.com was merged into Network Solutions. The services are delivered online as SaaS and hosting platforms and are not open source.

Network Solutions, LLC is a subsidiary of Newfold Digital and, according to Wikipedia, is based in Jacksonville, Florida. Newfold Digital is a joint venture of the US investors Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital Group, and also runs the Bluehost brand. The company pages do not name data centre regions, so no European hosting location is documented. For a European organisation, a US headquarters with US investors means the provider falls under US jurisdiction; where data is stored should therefore be asked per service.

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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
Websitenetworksolutions.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Network Solutions

The European alternatives to Network Solutions 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 Network Solutions

Network Solutions 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.

Network Solutions 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.

Network Solutions 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 Network Solutions 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 Network Solutions?

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

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

Is Network Solutions GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Network Solutions 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

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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