Q2 2026: Top 20 Fastest Growing EU Operators

What is this?

The Acquisition Index measures who runs the most efficient marketing machine. It calculates a provider's share of new, organic registrations divided by their overall market share. A score above 1.0x means you are punching above your weight.

And to ground findings in reality, we also consider Gross Add rates. The larger the number, the smaller the provider. Annualized gross add rates exceeding 100% mean that the provider would double their overall portfolio size if they continue growing at the current rate. A much harder feat at 1,000,000 DUM (domains under management) than at 10,000!

(For full formulas, specific baseline metrics, and core index criteria, refer directly to our foundational ShareShift Q1 Top 20 Report.)

Q2 Observations:

• RackHost.hu (7.32x) completely shattered the curve with a 229% annualized gross-add rate. Their growth is coming exclusively from .hu domains; deeper analysis is available to ShareShift customers as to the nature and quality of this growth.
• DonDominio (4.15x) and Arsys (2.97x) prove that Spain remains a highly contested, high-growth corridor for those with native footing. Both brands have accelerated vs last quarter.
• Dynadot (3.83) is once again in the Top 20 fastest growing, but drops out of the leaderboard on net growth velocity. Churn is too high; the bucket is very leaky.
• OpenProvider falls out of the Top 10 this quarter despite being a Dual Entrant in Q1.

Scope:

Our full analysis includes 500+ providers, but this shortlist only covers vendors with 50,000+ active domains under management.

The European market remains highly fragmented. Q2 reveals more companies building sustainable growth.

What it is:

Velocity dictates the future. This index tracks the net growth of a provider's total active portfolio relative to the market's baseline quarter-over-quarter growth (3.46% in Q2). It accounts for the brutal reality of churn and the hidden power of inbound migrations.

Q2 Observations:

• 11 Dual Entrants: Only the strongest operators can balance aggressive top-of-funnel acquisition with back-end retention. Providers like NameCheap, Hostinger and Cloudflare continue to appear on both the Acquisition and Velocity lists. This quarter, every 2nd vendor is in both tables - a healthy development.
• OpusDNS keeps the crown. In Q1, the new wholesale platform OpusDNS was an absolute anomaly, as a new entrant. Through bulk migrations, they comfortably retained the #1 spot in Velocity (32x) in Q2 as the most aggressive share shifter in Europe.
• Vercel, the cloud platform for vibe-coded apps, is accelerating to 11x this quarter vs 8x in Q1. This DNS-based report understates Vercel's true growth (full analysis available to paid subscribers upon request).
• YourHosting, a Your.Online retail brand, joins the Top 5 with 8.5x velocity. Most growth comes from .nl domains, and might be due to data artefacts (analysis ongoing; data to be updated).

Scope:

Our full analysis includes 500+ providers, but this shortlist only covers vendors with 5,000+ active domains under management. Additionally, several providers were excluded from this report due to differences in their business model: ParkLogic, NameSilo, Domain Brokers Sweden, Nameshift, DomainCatcher, DNSPod, & ClouDNS.