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 foundation 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 has been spun out into its own company — HostingBrain ApS (CVR 46679091, Denmark).
How data quality is reviewed
Versioned releases
The website, product and definitions read from one immutable release. Definition changes are dated and their affected numbers marked as not comparable to earlier ones, never presented as market movement.
Release gates
Every release passes an automated quality-check suite before it is served — population definitions, denominator consistency, alias completeness and content checks.
Quarantine over cosmetics
Materially invalid fields are withheld rather than returned with a footnote.
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, CVR 46679091, VAT DK46679091.
Store Kannikestræde 10, 1169 København K, Denmark.
General and commercial: [email protected]