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
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- Query
- 7 ms
01 · Entity
About 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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to about.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to about.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Close cos 0.868 - 02
JS.ORG - the JavaScript organization
Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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commercial provider of online memorials
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Smithsonian request verification
group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
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Home Page
API endpoint
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
Malaysian travel and location intelligence platform
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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.
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Cloudflare Captcha Page | Register.com
American domain name registrar
- Cloudflare
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Cloudflare DNS
- Microsoft 365
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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...
- Cloudflare
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Publisher Services
- Amazon SES
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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.
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nj.com
website for local news from New Jersey
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.xyz Domain Names | Join Generation XYZ
For every website, everywhere®
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Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
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Arch Linux
Linux distribution
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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
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Registry
internet country code top-level domain for India
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Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
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tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
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Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
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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
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-content:
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630837cec3e96b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- 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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what about.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 12/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on about.com 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on about.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on about.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on about.com 6/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on about.com 5/20
- nginx · not on about.com 4/20
- Atlassian 3/20
- GlobalSign 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on about.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on about.com 3/20
- OpenAI 3/20
- PHP · not on about.com 3/20