Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
A study of 19,450 European company websites reveals that US-based infrastructure vendors, particularly Cloudflare, dominate the hosting and delivery of European web traffic. While some countries like Germany and Poland maintain strong domestic hosting sectors, most European markets rely heavily on American technology providers.
Why it matters
It highlights the digital sovereignty challenges facing Europe and the significant market concentration of US tech giants in global internet infrastructure.
We looked at the primary website apex and www records for 19,450 European company entities and asked a narrow question: which infrastructure vendor is serving the company's main web presence?
The article relies on data-driven analysis of DNS records and vendor attribution without taking a political stance.
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