[Arnt]

"There must be thousands" is just despair. But since you mention something concrete, those 26 domains, I had a look. 26 is not a lot, easy for a human to scan. I included a few more (.ad for Andorra, .al for Albania, ..., .sm for San Marino) for a total of 52.

Belgium uses AWS and Gibraltar (.gi) uses Afilias. The Isle of Man and a couple of other small ones use DNS providers in Europe but outside their own territory. Apart from that, the 52 I checked all use their own primary name servers and often secondary name servers at other organisations elsewhere (e.g. Macedonia uses secondaries in Austria and Slovenia, Albania in the US and one in Australia).

So it's Belgium and Gibraltar, and soon it's just Gibraltar.

[taffydavid]

Oh well that's good news. I don't mean to despair, I think it's within our grasp to break out of US tech dependence, I just worry the momentum won't last. There's a surge of EV sales whenever there's an energy crisis, but it usually trails off once the crisis is over.

I hope our push to be more local with tech is not just reactionary