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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.

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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

Top 10K · #3,994 English 5 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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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

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03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to AFRINIC

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  1. 01
    APNIC apnic.net Top 10K English

    APNIC

    A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community

  2. 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.

  3. 03
    Registry registry.in Top 10K English

    Registry

    internet country code top-level domain for India

  4. 04
    IPinfo ipinfo.io Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    RIPE Network Coordination Centre ripe.net Top 10K English

    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.

  6. 06
    Dynadot dynadot.com Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    NIC.IO nic.io Top 10K English

    NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre

    NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre

  8. 08
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

  9. 09
    NIC.DO nic.do Top 10K English

    NIC.DO – .DO Domain Registration

    Internet country-code top level domain for the Dominican Republic

  10. 10
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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    Orange orange.com Top 10K English

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    French multinational telecommunications enterprise

  12. 12
    directnic.com Top 10K English

    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.

  13. 13
    Register.com register.com Top 10K English

    Cloudflare Captcha Page | Register.com

    American domain name registrar

  14. 14
    ipify.org Top 1K English

    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.

  15. 15
    IP ip.sb Top 10K English

    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.

  16. 16
    Aruba aruba.it Top 10K English

    Home | Aruba.it

    Italian registrar and Web hosting company

  17. 17
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

  18. 18
    Verisign verisign.com Top 1K English

    A global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure | Verisign

    Verisign, a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names.

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    easyDNS easydns.com Top 10K English

    easyDNS - DNS, Domains, Web and Email Hosting Since 1998

    The DNS Professionals: Anycast, Dynamic DNS, Enterprise DNS, Secondary DNS with TSIG, DNSSEC. We also offer web hosting, email and VPS. Amazing Support.

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    Free IP API freeipapi.com Top 10K English

    Free & Fast IP Geolocation API (JSON & XML) - Free IP API

    Free, Fast and Reliable IP Geolocation, Countries, Timezones and Phone codes API for commercial and non-commercial usage, Available in JSON and XML formats.

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…

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