State of EU sovereignty 2026

As of Based on the latest check of 10,868 domains

How many websites keep their hosting, DNS, mail, CDN and third-party services inside the European Union. These are domains people chose to check on staysin.eu, not a representative sample of the web. Each domain counts once, with its most recent check. How each check works is explained in the methodology.

Key findings

  • 85% of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu leave the EU in at least one scored service.
  • 1,565 of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu keep every scored service in the EU.
  • Cloudflare is the most used hosting provider among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 16% of them (1,775 domains).
  • Cloudflare is the most used DNS provider among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 19% of them (2,081 domains).
  • Microsoft 365 is the most used mail provider among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 19% of them (2,047 domains).
  • Cloudflare is the most used CDN among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 18% of them (1,969 domains).
  • Google Cloud is the most common third-party service, loaded by 38% of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu (4,148 domains).
  • 18% of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu have a valid DNSSEC signature.
  • United States receives 89% of the non-EU data flows found across the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu.

A domain leaves the EU when at least one scored service (hosting, DNS, mail, mail sending, CDN, server location or a third-party request) is non-EU under the staysin.eu methodology.

Most used hosting providers

Cloudflare is the most used hosting provider among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 16% of them (1,775 domains).

Hosting providerDomainsShare of 10,868Jurisdiction
Cloudflare1,77516%Non-EU
Amazon AWS1,35012%Non-EU
Hetzner1,13810%EU
IONOS3323%EUMajority owned by United Internet AG (Germany).
Microsoft Azure3113%Non-EU

Most used DNS providers

Cloudflare is the most used DNS provider among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 19% of them (2,081 domains).

DNS providerDomainsShare of 10,868Jurisdiction
Cloudflare2,08119%Non-EU
Amazon AWS1,03610%Non-EU
IONOS6736%EUMajority owned by United Internet AG (Germany).
Hetzner3934%EU
RcodeZero2903%EURun by ipcom, a sister company of the .at registry nic.at.

Most used mail providers

Microsoft 365 is the most used mail provider among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 19% of them (2,047 domains).

Mail providerDomainsShare of 10,868Jurisdiction
Microsoft 3652,04719%Non-EU
Google Workspace1,95418%Non-EU
Hetzner4784%EU
IONOS2993%EUMajority owned by United Internet AG (Germany).
ProtonMail2292%Non-EUSwiss company controlled by the nonprofit Proton Foundation; Switzerland is not an EU member.

Most used CDNs

Cloudflare is the most used CDN among the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu, used by 18% of them (1,969 domains).

CDNDomainsShare of 10,868Jurisdiction
Cloudflare1,96918%Non-EU
Amazon AWS6336%Non-EU
Vercel2863%Non-EU
Bunny.net1802%Non-EUSlovenian company, but most of its CDN delivery runs on infrastructure operated by DataCamp Limited (UK).
Microsoft Azure1712%Non-EU

Most common third-party requests

Google Cloud is the most common third-party service, loaded by 38% of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu (4,148 domains).

Third-party serviceDomainsShare of 10,868Jurisdiction
Google Cloud4,14838%Non-EUPart of Alphabet Inc. (US).
Cloudflare3,48432%Non-EU
Amazon AWS2,81326%Non-EU
Akamai1,36413%Non-EU
Fastly1,29912%Non-EU
CDN779519%Non-EURun by UK-registered DataCamp Limited, which also runs DataPacket.
Hetzner8448%EU
Microsoft Azure7377%Non-EU
FACEBOOK3663%Non-EU
OVHcloud2692%EUControlled by the founding Klaba family.

Most common networks

AS15169 GOOGLE is the most common network, carrying traffic for 43% of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu (4,675 domains).

Networks are autonomous systems (ASNs) that carry any scored service or third-party request. EU here means the network's IP addresses are announced in the EU.

NetworkDomainsShare of 10,868IP location
AS15169 GOOGLE4,67543%Non-EU
AS13335 CLOUDFLARENET4,60342%Non-EU
AS16509 AMAZON-024,14638%Non-EU
AS8075 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK3,23930%Non-EU
AS24940 HETZNER-AS2,14520%EU

DNSSEC adoption

18% of the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu have a valid DNSSEC signature.

DNSSEC signs a domain's DNS records so resolvers can detect tampering. It is shown on every check but does not affect the verdict.

Where non-EU traffic goes

United States receives 89% of the non-EU data flows found across the 10,868 domains checked on staysin.eu.

A data flow is one scored service or third-party request whose IP address is announced outside the EU, counted by the country where the network announces it.

Weekly trend

In the week of 19 Oct 2026 (still in progress), 87% of the 1,900 domains checked on staysin.eu so far left the EU.

Each domain counts once per week, with its last result that week, so a week reflects the rules in effect at the time.

Week (UTC, Monday start)Domains checkedLeave the EUShare
Week of 27 Apr 2026 2,2671,94985%
Week of 4 May 2026 1,6401,40285%
Week of 11 May 2026 41834582%
Week of 18 May 2026 74962883%
Week of 25 May 2026 48140183%
Week of 1 Jun 2026 41633580%
Week of 8 Jun 2026 59850384%
Week of 15 Jun 2026 2,8042,41085%
Week of 22 Jun 2026 37231183%
Week of 29 Jun 2026 90376684%
Week of 6 Jul 2026 34828882%
Week of 13 Jul 2026 46437781%
Week of 20 Jul 2026 51144386%
Week of 27 Jul 2026 1,2411,07786%
Week of 3 Aug 2026 42235283%
Week of 10 Aug 2026 63553984%
Week of 17 Aug 2026 47539783%
Week of 24 Aug 2026 41734983%
Week of 31 Aug 2026 48040083%
Week of 7 Sep 2026 33928483%
Week of 14 Sep 2026 24619579%
Week of 21 Sep 2026 1,2581,09186%
Week of 28 Sep 2026 70862688%
Week of 5 Oct 2026 2,3772,03885%
Week of 12 Oct 2026 1,5121,29285%
Week of 19 Oct 2026 (so far)1,9001,66987%

About this data

These numbers come from domains people chose to check on staysin.eu. They are not a representative sample of the web, of Europe, or of any industry. Each figure is computed from the latest check of each domain at the time this page was generated. Provider EU or non-EU status follows the current provider classification; how it is decided is explained in the methodology.