Register No. 046
Is IONOS European?
Yes. IONOS is under verified European control.
IONOS is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, but United Internet owns almost two thirds of it. United Internet is controlled by its German founder Ralph Dommermuth, who holds a majority of its voting shares.
Latest
Nothing new on file since the check on 30 October 2026. Seen news about IONOS? Send it with a source.
- Controlled by
- Ralph Dommermuth, through United Internet AG
- Control sits in
- Germany
- Legal entity
- IONOS SE
- Company register
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Montabaur · HRB 24498
- Seat
Montabaur, Germany- Founded
- 1988
- Last checked
About IONOS
IONOS sells web hosting, domains, email, website builders, virtual servers and an enterprise cloud. It is based in Montabaur, Germany, and started as 1&1 in 1988. Most customers are small businesses and freelancers, plus companies that use IONOS Cloud.
Ownership
IONOS SE runs the business and belongs to IONOS Group SE (HRB 25386 Montabaur, listed in Frankfurt), in which United Internet AG holds 63.8%. Ralph Dommermuth holds 54.37% of the voting shares of United Internet AG (48.94% of all shares when non-voting treasury shares are counted) personally and through his companies, as of 5 August 2026. Warburg Pincus sold its last IONOS shares on 27 March 2025.
Evidence 5
- IONOS Group investor relations, details on the share: United Internet 63.8%, Helikon 6.1%, Wellington 3.0%, own shares 3.8%, free float 23.3% (30 June 2026)ionos-group.com ↗
- IONOS Group SE financial statements 2025: Warburg Pincus exit on 27 March 2025, United Internet 63.8%, operating business in IONOS SEionos-group.com ↗
- United Internet investor relations, facts and figures: Ralph Dommermuth 54.37% (5 August 2026)united-internet.de ↗
- IONOS legal notice: IONOS SE, Montabaur, HRB 24498ionos.de ↗
- IONOS About: 1&1 was born in 1988ionos.com ↗
Sources were opened and read on the date of the check. Registers and websites change; if one of these no longer says what we cite it for, tell us.
Products 7
IONOS
cloud.ionos.co.uk ↗German cloud platform for servers and storage
IONOS is a cloud computing platform from Germany. It provides the usual services: virtual servers, virtual private cloud networking, managed databases and object storage, with server capacity billed per resource so you pay for the RAM and the cores you configure.
- Instead of
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bluehost WordPress, DigitalOcean, DreamHost WordPress, Google Cloud Platform and Hostgator WordPress
- Pricing
- Virtual servers are priced per resource: about $5 per month for 1 GB of RAM, and from $18 per month per virtual core.
- Suits
- Companies that want an established EU cloud provider
IONOS object storage
cloud.ionos.co.uk ↗Object storage from German cloud provider IONOS
IONOS Object Storage is the object storage service of the German cloud provider IONOS. It is S3 compatible, so existing tools and libraries work with it directly, and there is no cold storage tier: everything you store stays immediately available.
- Instead of
- Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
- Pricing
- Storage costs 0.015 euros per GB per month and incoming traffic is free. API requests cost 0.04 euros per 10,000 PUT, COPY, POST or LIST calls and 0.003 euros per 10,000 GET calls, and outgoing traffic is billed separately.
- Suits
- Applications that need S3 storage inside the EU
IONOS Deploy Now
ionos.com ↗Jamstack hosting from Germany, deploys from GitHub
IONOS Deploy Now is the Jamstack hosting product of the German cloud provider IONOS. You connect a GitHub repository and the platform publishes your application from it, so static sites and frontend applications can be deployed without setting up a server or a pipeline yourself.
- Instead of
- Netlify and Vercel
- Pricing
- Pricing starts at 4.03 euros per month.
- Suits
- Developers deploying static sites straight from GitHub
IONOS domains
ionos.co.uk ↗Domain registrar from German provider IONOS
IONOS Domains is the domain name registrar product of the German cloud provider IONOS. The company is accredited by ICANN and supports DNSSEC, and every domain comes with a free 2 GB email account and a wildcard SSL certificate, so a new address can be put to work immediately.
- Instead of
- GoDaddy
- Suits
- Anyone who wants a domain with mailbox and certificate included
IONOS WordPress Hosting
ionos.de ↗WordPress hosting from German provider IONOS
IONOS WordPress Hosting is the WordPress hosting product of IONOS, a cloud provider based in Germany. Plans include a domain and the hosting is prepared for WordPress, with the company advertising an uptime of 99.97%, so a site can go live without server administration.
- Instead of
- Bluehost WordPress, DreamHost WordPress, Hostgator WordPress, Kinsta and WordPress.com
- Pricing
- Plans start at 4 euros per month and include one domain.
- Suits
- Small WordPress sites on a low monthly budget
IONOS Email Hosting
ionos.com ↗- Instead of
- Gmail and Outlook.com
IONOS HiDrive
ionos.com ↗- Instead of
- Dropbox and Google Drive
Operations
Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 4 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.
| Part | Provider | Provider control | What we saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public website | IONOS | European | A 217.160.86.38 · AS8560 [1] [2] |
| Incoming email | Google Workspace | Not European | MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com · 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com · 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.ionos.co.uk · 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com · 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.ionos.co.uk [1] |
| Outgoing email | Google Workspace | Not European | SPF _spf.google.com [1] |
IONOS says its services run in 29 data centres, nine of which it owns.
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