Who is Hetzner?
Hetzner Online is a German hosting and cloud provider founded by Martin Hetzner in 1997 in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria. It runs its own data center parks in Falkenstein and Nuremberg in Germany and in Helsinki, Finland, sells dedicated and cloud servers, and is an ICANN-accredited registrar.
- What it is
- Web hosting, Domain registrar, DNS provider
- Operated by
- Hetzner Online GmbH
- Based in
- Gunzenhausen, Germany
- Founded
- 1997, by Martin Hetzner
- ICANN accreditation
- Yes, IANA ID 828
- Website
- hetzner.com
Where are Hetzner’s data centers?
In its own parks in Falkenstein (from 2008) and Nuremberg (from 2011) in Germany and Helsinki in Finland (from 2018), with further locations in the USA and Singapore.
Hetzner in axath Analytics
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Open AnalyticsSources
- Hetzner: from Gunzenhausen to the world
- Hetzner: data center park Helsinki opening (2018)
- IANA: Registrar IDs (ICANN-accredited registrars)
Last reviewed October 9, 2026.