87 verified European113 companies checked

European alternatives, and who really owns them

A legal seat in Europe is not enough. We follow each company's ownership up to whoever controls it, and publish the evidence.

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Booking.com is widely heldChecked 2 Nov 2026 · Netherlands Opera is controlled from ChinaChecked 2 Nov 2026 · Norway Startpage is widely heldChecked 2 Nov 2026 · Netherlands

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Each category recommends only services whose European control we have verified, and tells you what else we checked and why it did not make it.

Cloud and servers Instead of AWS, Google Cloud or Azure 29 verified services Cloud storage Instead of Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive 14 verified services Email Instead of Gmail, Outlook or iCloud Mail 12 verified services Domains and DNS hosting Instead of GoDaddy, Namecheap or Route 53 9 verified services Office and documents Instead of Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Notion 8 verified services Video calls Instead of Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams 7 verified services Team and community chat Instead of Slack, Discord or Microsoft Teams 6 verified services Public DNS Instead of Google Public DNS or Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 6 verified services Smart home Instead of Google Home, Amazon Alexa or Apple Home 6 verified services Web analytics Instead of Google Analytics 5 verified services Email sending and newsletters Instead of Mailchimp, SendGrid or Amazon SES 5 verified services CDN and DDoS protection Instead of Cloudflare, Fastly or Akamai 4 verified services

Method

How a verdict is made

Most "European" lists stop at the address in the legal notice. That is where we start.

  1. 1

    Find the operator

    The legal entity you would sign a contract with, from its legal notice, terms and the official company register.

  2. 2

    Follow the ownership up

    Parent companies, majority shareholders, funds and foundations, until we reach whoever controls the votes.

  3. 3

    Publish the evidence

    Every verdict is dated and links to public sources anyone can open. When the facts change, so does the verdict.

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87Verified EuropeanUltimate control sits in the EU, the EEA or Switzerland, and a public source shows it. 10Not EuropeanBased in Europe, often, but controlled from somewhere else. 7Widely heldListed on a stock exchange with no shareholder in control. 9UnresolvedWe looked, and public sources do not show who is in control.

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The whole register is open data under CC BY 4.0: every company, verdict, controller and source, as JSON.

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