Alternatives and competitors
Sites like AFRINIC
The 20 closest regional Internet registry alternatives to AFRINIC, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to AFRINIC? The closest matches are APNIC, American Registry for Internet Numbers and Registry. 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
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- Vector
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About AFRINIC
AFRINIC afrinic.net
AFRINIC - Regional Internet Registry for Africa
AFRINIC is responsible for the allocation and management of Internet numbers (IPv4, IPv6 & ASNs) resources in Africa.
Wikidata: regional Internet registry for Africa
Summary by Claude
AFRINIC is the regional Internet registry for Africa, allocating and registering IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and autonomous system numbers, running the WHOIS database, and coordinating community policy development and training.
- Who it’s for
- African ISPs, network operators and internet community
- Business model
- Membership fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to AFRINIC’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 AFRINIC
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AFRINIC, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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APNIC
A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community
Very close cos 0.939 - 02
American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARIN is a nonprofit, member-based organization that administers IP addresses & ASNs in support of the operation and growth of the Internet.
Very close cos 0.936 - 03
Registry
internet country code top-level domain for India
Very close cos 0.897 - 04
IP Data Intelligence for Developers & Enterprises | IPinfo
IPinfo, the trusted global leader in IP address data and intelligence. Powering applications and security solutions for developers and businesses.
Close cos 0.885 - 05 Close cos 0.882
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IP Echo Service
Close cos 0.882 - 07
Welcome to RIPE and the RIPE NCC — RIPE Network Coordination Centre
The RIPE NCC is one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) providing Internet resource allocation and registration, and coordination activities.
Close cos 0.878 - 08
Register, Buy & Manage Domain Names Online | Dynadot
Search 800+ domain extensions, register names at transparent prices, and manage DNS, privacy, email, transfers, renewals, and domain portfolios in Dynadot.
Close cos 0.882 - 09
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
standards organization overseeing IP addresses
Close cos 0.879 - 10
NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre
NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre
Close cos 0.879 - 11
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close cos 0.878 - 12
NIC.DO – .DO Domain Registration
Internet country-code top level domain for the Dominican Republic
Close cos 0.878 - 13
Home Page
API endpoint
Close cos 0.875 - 14
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French multinational telecommunications enterprise
Close cos 0.872 - 15
Directnic.com-Get a FREE Domain with any annual Hosting Plan
Directnic makes registering Domain Names fast, simple, and affordable. Find out why so many business owners chose Directnic to be their Domain Name Registrar.
Close cos 0.873 - 16
Cloudflare Captcha Page | Register.com
American domain name registrar
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
Close cos 0.874 - 17
ipify - A Simple Public IP Address API
ipify API is a simple public IP address API, easy enough to integrate into any application in seconds.
Close cos 0.872 - 18
IP Address Lookup / IPv4 / IPv6 - IP.SB
IP.SB shows your public IPv4 and IPv6 address, hostname, ISP, ASN and location, with a free IP geolocation API.
Close cos 0.872 - 19
Accueil | Service Public
Service Public - Vos droits et démarches plus simplement
Close cos 0.869 - 20
Home | Aruba.it
Italian registrar and Web hosting company
Close cos 0.870
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to afrinic.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones AFRINIC uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What AFRINIC is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 mx a ip4:196.216.2.0/23 ip4:196.192.112.0/23 ip4:196.192.124.0…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT v=spf1 mx a ip4:196.216.2.0/23 ip4:196.192.112.0/23 ip4:196.192.124.0…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AFRINIC adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on afrinic.net 17/20
- Cloudflare · not on afrinic.net 8/20
- jQuery · not on afrinic.net 6/20
- nginx 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on afrinic.net 5/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on afrinic.net 4/20
- Font Awesome 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on afrinic.net 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on afrinic.net 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on afrinic.net 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on afrinic.net 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on afrinic.net 4/20
- PHP · not on afrinic.net 3/20
- OpenAI · not on afrinic.net 3/20
- Adobe · not on afrinic.net 2/20