Alternatives and competitors

Sites like APNIC

The 20 closest regional Internet registry alternatives to APNIC, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to APNIC? The closest matches are AFRINIC, American Registry for Internet Numbers and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. 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 APNIC

APNIC apnic.net

APNIC

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

Wikidata: regional Internet registry for the Asia Pacific region

Top 10K · #4,316 English 12 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit APNIC

Summary by Claude

APNIC is the nonprofit Regional Internet Registry that allocates and registers IP addresses and AS numbers for the Asia Pacific region, and also runs a technical blog, training, and community events such as APRICOT.

Who it’s for
Network operators and ISPs in Asia Pacific
Business model
Membership fees

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to APNIC’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

easyDNSFree IP APIIP-API.comipify.orgIPinfoIPICANNDynadotAmerican Registry for Internet NumbersAFRINIC

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to APNIC

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    AFRINIC afrinic.net Top 10K English

    AFRINIC - Regional Internet Registry for Africa

    AFRINIC is responsible for the allocation and management of Internet numbers (IPv4, IPv6 & ASNs) resources in Africa.

  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
    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.

  4. 04
    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.

  5. 05
    Registry registry.in Top 10K English

    Registry

    internet country code top-level domain for India

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    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.

  8. 08
    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.

  9. 09
    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.

  10. 10
    IP-API.com ip-api.com Top 1K English

    IP-API.com - Geolocation API

    Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13
    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

  14. 14
    porkbun.com Top 1K English

    porkbun.com | An oddly satisfying experience.

    Porkbun is an amazingly awesome ICANN accredited domain name registrar based out of the Pacific Northwest. We're different, we're easy, and we're affordable. Use us, you won't be sorry. If you don't use us we'll be sad, but we'll still love you.

  15. 15
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  16. 16
    NIC.DO nic.do Top 10K English

    NIC.DO – .DO Domain Registration

    Internet country-code top level domain for the Dominican Republic

  17. 17
    Register.com register.com Top 10K English

    Cloudflare Captcha Page | Register.com

    American domain name registrar

  18. 18
    ipapi.co Top 10K English

    ipapi - IP Address Lookup and Geolocation API | No SignUp

    Enterprise IP Location by Kloudend, Inc - built on AWS, trusted by Fortune 500. Geolocation API for JSON, XML in PHP, JS, Java, Python, Node & more.

  19. 19
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

  20. 20
    No-IP no-ip.com Top 1K English

    No-IP | Smarter DNS Starts Here

    No-IP is a Free Dynamic DNS and Managed DNS provider with 100% uptime. Get free DDNS, plus domain registration and SSL certificates, for home and business

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://www.apnic.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://www.apnic.net/wp-content/themes/apnic/js/bootstrap.min.js?v=915e23e72aae2b4bc210d…
Tag managers
Security
  • reCAPTCHA page source: recaptcha.net/recaptcha
CDN
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.9)
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=afea3905ecc4177cfec5bf47e2e6814ae036f3ff2…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=reGz1ztbrHxNxfcfsLeuF1k7nophXxhXZ245ala…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=dbba5af4-0382-4510-83e3-ad2adff551fe
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=atQ2mi6-hzpUmfnOZxr6nGbJEsOO6xEm50kH3soTNLk
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=BG4qq5nnxMHRWayxkXXjIpP4ycjiM1BziDxWLeMx

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