Yes. DENIC is operated from Germany, has no non-EU parent company and runs its own infrastructure, so staysin.eu classifies it as EU-sovereign.
Cooperative that runs the .de registry.
A provider counts as EU only when all three criteria hold:
Where a server physically sits is shown on each check but does not change the verdict: legal reach follows who controls the processing, not where the bytes are. Read the methodology.
Seen on 1 of 10871 checked domains (latest check per domain, as of 25 October 2026): as hosting on 1, as DNS on 1, as mail sending (SPF) on 1.
Domains are those people chose to check on staysin.eu, not a representative sample of the web.
Recently checked domains using DENIC: