Alternatives and competitors

Sites like about.com

The 20 closest placeholder domain alternatives to about.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to about.com? The closest matches are kinotik13.xyz, Lothar and about.me. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
4,032
Vector
384-d
Query
14 ms

01 · Entity

About about.com

about.com

Simple Page

Top 10K · #2,112 English 10 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit about.com

Summary by Claude

The domain currently shows only a minimal placeholder page titled "Simple Page". It was formerly the About.com reference and how-to content network, which was rebranded as Dotdash.

Who it’s for
General web visitors

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to about.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

LokaDOI.org query endpointSmithsonian Institutionmyhostadmin.netDrupalJS.ORGSitemapsabout.meLotharkinotik13.xyz

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to about.com

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to about.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    kinotik13.xyz Top 10K Russian

    Защита сайта

  2. 02
    Lothar lothar.com Top 10K

    Lothar of the Webspace

  3. 03
    about.me Top 10K English

    about.me | your personal homepage

    Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.

  4. 04
    StumbleUpon stumbleupon.com Top 10K

    StumbleUpon

    content discovery platform

  5. 05
    Sitemaps sitemaps.org Top 10K

    sitemaps.org - Home

    The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.

  6. 06
    JS.ORG js.org Top 10K English

    JS.ORG - the JavaScript organization

    Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015

  7. 07
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  8. 08
    Legacy.com legacy.com Top 10K English

    commercial provider of online memorials

  9. 09

    独立控制面板登录

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  10. 10
    Smithsonian Institution si.edu Top 10K English

    Smithsonian request verification

    group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government

  11. 11
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

  12. 12
    Loka loka.my English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    Malaysian travel and location intelligence platform

  13. 13
    pastebin.com Top 10K English

    Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!

    Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

  14. 14
    boutell.com Top 10K

    Welcome to Boutell.Com, Inc.!

  15. 15
    Register.com register.com Top 10K English

    Cloudflare Captcha Page | Register.com

    American domain name registrar

  16. 16
    Boing Boing boingboing.net Top 10K English

    Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things

    Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...

  17. 17
    How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English

    How-To Geek - We Explain Technology

    We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.

  18. 18
    Myspace myspace.com Top 1K

    Featured Content on Myspace

    Featured Content on Myspace

  19. 19
    NJ.com nj.com Top 10K English

    nj.com

    website for local news from New Jersey

  20. 20
    com.com Top 10K English

    .xyz Domain Names | Join Generation XYZ

    For every website, everywhere®

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to about.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones about.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What about.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CSS & UI
CDN
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=4d443bb146b2a60fc0c0216c899a6ef9baa971cc3…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=uutqhyge655rxaicqp-iayc/q7ggtojzidouyp0…
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ojigih5w0ef57wjvnpzdo5a4culsziquhumcd…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nabvdaatpqecskkkchqujsdsjagdkyi4dg5-vj-bcrw
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=rf8ocdhxrznl039sodxk5mul9of8l7
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-7ma37immfvwqj1fwgsn676a6
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=op2dusosy3seuyxvj1tjafq1nwifizeevpkitpnr

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