Hosting Concepts B.V.
Hosting Concepts B.V. trades as Openprovider: the ICANN accreditation is registered under the legal entity Hosting Concepts B.V. (d/b/a Registrar.eu), while Openprovider is the brand customers know and use. Openprovider is a wholesale domain registrar based in Rotterdam, founded in 2004. Through its membership model, resellers get cost-price domains across 2,500+ TLDs, plus SSL, DNS, email and security add-ons on an API-first platform. A top-20 registrar worldwide, Openprovider manages over 4 million domains for 11,000+ resellers, hosting providers and MSPs.
Hosting Concepts B.V. is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar (IANA ID 1647) based in Netherlands. with a 3.2★ Trustpilot rating from 80 reviews as of September 2026.
USD 1.99 / year
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- MSPs and agencies
OVERVIEW
Hosting Concepts B.V. is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, IANA registrar ID 1647, based in Netherlands. Accreditation means it is authorised to register domains directly in gTLD registries rather than reselling through another registrar.
The accreditation is held through the legal entity Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu, which is how the company appears in ICANN and RDAP records.
The owner has verified this profile and disclosed 16 of 17 tracked facts, including founder(s): Arno Vis; ceo: Arno Vis; coo: Eline Verhek; founded: 2004. The full evidence-tiered list is in the Disclosure section below.
Other accredited registrars based in Netherlands: Metaregistrar BV, NextName B.V., Realtime Register B.V., Stichting Registrar of Last Resort Foundation, The Registrar Company B.V..
Hosting Concepts B.V. also appears as a web hosting provider in the HostList directory. Hosting and domain registration are separate products with separate profiles.
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WHAT HOSTING CONCEPTS B.V. DISCLOSES
Official records come from IANA and ICANN source data. Owner-declared facts are published by the verified profile owner and are not independently audited. Disclosure is free and does not affect directory placement.
16 of 17 owner facts disclosed
Four equal-weight components, 25 points each. Built from verified ownership, third-party reviews, disclosure coverage, and data recency. No paid influence.
1 detail not disclosed
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