Luxembourg

Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Luxembourg gains three places to ninth at 6.11 (June: 5.79, 12th). The whole gain is on the private-sector pillar, up 1.50 to 6.03, on a small sample: only 246 .lu domains are measured, so a handful of migrations move the score. Developer density is good (4.03, 9th) and public-sector hosting solid (7.78, 7th): www.vdl.lu is fully domestic, while gouvernement.lu and monarchie.lu are hosted and mailed by the state's CTIE but resolved by COLT, a UK operator.

Strengths

• Developer ecosystem (6.04, 9th).
• Public sector (7.78, 7th), with the web and email of all three official sites in Luxembourg.

Weaknesses

• DNS of the government and grand-ducal sites at COLT (UK); both rate 0.67.
• Private-sector hosting (6.03, 13th). 46% of the sample is hosted outside the EU (Cloudflare 20%, Amazon 11%); 55% of email is non-EU. Domestic hosting is led by OVH, RESTENA and POST.
• Grassroots adoption (4.61, 11th), with desktop Linux at 3.75%.

Outlook

With a sample this small, Luxembourg's rank will keep swinging with a few sites. Moving two DNS zones from COLT to a Luxembourg or EU operator is the one structural gain within reach.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Luxembourg was an "emerging" nation with a moderately strong and unique strategic position as a trusted data hub for Europe, but an underdeveloped formal policy for open source.

2024 progression

Luxembourg's incentives have focused on emerging technologies and cybersecurity. The Clausen Project, a key new initiative, will establish a national OSPO and contribute open source tools for cybersecurity, linking OSS to its strategic goals.

Historischer Verweis

OSOR-Datenblatt (PDF, 2024) — der länderbezogene Open-Source-Politikbericht, der in der zurückgezogenen Säule „Öffentliche Politik“ von EDRIX 1.0 verwendet wurde.