Why the company exists
HostingBrain began in 2025 as an internal research project: systematically observing Europe's web-provisioned domain population to understand a quietly consolidating industry — who actually hosts the continent's businesses, who is buying whom, and what the books being traded really contain. The dataset grew into the substrate for private analyst briefings on hosting M&A and market structure.
When we decided to open it up, we made a deliberate choice. The analysts we worked with weren't reading dashboards — they were already doing their analysis in conversation with AI assistants. So rather than shipping another BI tool or dumping raw data, we built the dataset into the place where the work already happens: a connector that answers questions the way an informed colleague would — with the date, the denominator and the caveats attached.
As part of opening external access, the project is being spun out into its own company — HostingBrain ApS (under formation, Denmark).
How data quality is reviewed
Versioned releases
The website, product and definitions read from one immutable release. Definition changes are declared as series breaks, never presented as market movement.
Release gates
Every release passes an invariant suite before it is served — population definitions, denominator consistency, alias completeness and content canaries.
Quarantine over cosmetics
Materially invalid fields are withheld rather than returned with a footnote. When we don't know, the answer says so.
Calibration
Observed populations are calibrated against public registry totals where registries publish them, and the calibration is itself a product surface.
The full definitions, populations and release policy are public: data & methodology.
Independence
HostingBrain is an independent product. The intelligence is built from publicly observable signals and public records; research confidentiality means customer query subjects are never visible to other customers and never sold. Published research contains no paid placement.
Contact and corporate details
HostingBrain ApS (under formation), Denmark.
General and commercial: [email protected]