Provider
Openprovider
Reseller-focused registrar platform offering local-presence services across a dozen countries, and one of the few to state plainly that .de no longer needs one.
- Country
- Netherlands
- Legal form
- Hosting Concepts B.V.
- Extensions covered
- 6
Our assessment
Openprovider is honest about the thing most trustee marketing skips: since May 2018 a .de domain needs no local presence, and the company says so in its own documentation. It still offers the service as an option, and where a registrar has wrongly kept local presence enabled it will remove it at no cost. Its published local presence list covers a dozen countries including France, and does not include .eu. It is a reseller platform, so retail buyers reach it through a reseller, and there is little reason to add the service to a .de domain in the first place.
Restricted TLDs covered
.de, .fr, .hu, .sg, .jp, .br.
Where this provider appears
- .de local-presence comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
- .fr trustee comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
- .hu trustee comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
- .sg trustee comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
- .jp trustee comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
- .br trustee comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
What is checked
Per-TLD fees and five-year totals, the contract terms on surrender and transfer, the legal entity that becomes the registrant of record in each country, non-payment behaviour, and what shows in each registry's public lookup. Figures are published only once verified against the provider's current pricing, with a date. Ratings are given per extension in each comparison table, weigh contract transparency, exit terms and holding structure ahead of price, and are not affected by affiliate arrangements because there are none.
Last checked September 2026. The assessment is editorial and based on the provider's published terms and public register data. Spotted something out of date? Email info@trusteeindex.com.