In the Netherlands, there was an uproar that SIDN, the .nl domain registry, would move certain services to #AWS. As that circulated the parliament intervened and a detailed research was done.

From my read, no EU cloud provider, neither #OVH, nor #IONOS or #HETZNER or #STACKIT is able or can compete.

Nevertheless, why do not all european based domain registries join forces?

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#hetzner raising prices for us customers. new customers december 1 2024, existing customers february 1 2025

notably the cheapest one is going from 3.85 eur to 4.49 eur which is a 16.62% increase

traffic allowance also being dropped from 20TB to 1TB