Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Curaçao: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
Curaçao makes its own telecommunications and security-service ordinances, under which tapping needs the written permission of ministers in each case and a supervisory commission receives a copy within 48 hours.
Curaçao is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that governs most domestic matters itself; the Kingdom retains defence and foreign policy. The ordinances below are Curaçao’s own.
The National Ordinance on Telecommunications Facilities (consolidated text of 6 July 2011) requires a concession, granted by national decree, to install, maintain and operate telecommunications infrastructure (art. 2(1)). Concession conditions must cover confidentiality and the protection of privacy (art. 7(2)(e)–(f)). The text read contains no general rule on keeping traffic data.
Under the National Ordinance on the Curaçao Security Service (2010 text), every concession holder must make without delay the technical provisions the head of the service considers desirable for tapping and recording telecommunications (art. 8(3)). Whether a VPN operator holds or needs a concession is not established.
The telecommunications ordinance lets the Minister refuse or interrupt a service assigned to a concession holder if its contents are deemed to conflict with the security of Curaçao or the rule of law (art. 39), and place international telecommunications under supervision or partly suspend them for an indefinite period in the public interest (art. 40).
The Criminal Code of Curaçao lists offences touching personal privacy from article 2:69 onward. The telecommunications ordinance punishes installing infrastructure without a concession with up to six months’ imprisonment or a fine, and obtaining a service unlawfully by technical intervention with up to four years (art. 35(1)–(2)).
Under the security-service ordinance, tapping needs the written permission of the ministers and the minister responsible for telecommunications in each concrete case (art. 8(2)).
The State Regulation guarantees respect for private life (art. 12). The security service is supervised by a commission chaired by a judge designated by the President of the Joint Court of Justice, with the chair of the administrative appeals advisory commission and the director of the government audit bureau; the head must send it a copy of each tapping permission within 48 hours (arts. 8(2), 22).
The independent supervisor under the data-protection ordinance is in preparation, according to the States of Curaçao’s own 2026 submission to the Kingdom’s IPKO. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Curaçao
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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