Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Internet Systems Consortium
The 20 closest open-source network infrastructure software alternatives to Internet Systems Consortium, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Internet Systems Consortium? The closest matches are NLnet Labs, Apache Software Foundation and ICANN. 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
- 16 ms
01 · Entity
About Internet Systems Consortium
Internet Systems Consortium isc.org
Wikidata: development and dissemination of internet software and tools
Summary by Claude
Nonprofit that develops and maintains open-source Internet infrastructure software, including the BIND DNS server and the Kea and ISC DHCP servers, and sells support subscriptions for them. It also operates the F-root DNS server.
- Who it’s for
- Network operators, ISPs and enterprise IT administrators
- Business model
- Support subscriptions and donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Internet Systems Consortium’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 Internet Systems Consortium
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Internet Systems Consortium, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read isc.org’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close cos 0.924 - 02
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close cos 0.900 - 03
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close cos 0.901 - 04
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
standards organization overseeing IP addresses
Close cos 0.889 - 05
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.887 - 06
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.
Close cos 0.888 - 07
Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
Close cos 0.887 - 08 Close cos 0.885
- 09
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Close cos 0.884 - 10
OWASP Foundation - The Open Source Foundation for Application Security
OWASP is the nonprofit behind the Top 10, ASVS, ZAP, and hundreds more free application security projects. Explore our tools, standards, local chapters, global events, and news from a community of 250+ chapters worldwide.
Close cos 0.882 - 11
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.885 - 12
nginx
open source web server and a reverse proxy server
Close cos 0.882 - 13
Start | Netnod
internet exchange in Sweden
Close cos 0.880 - 14
Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Close cos 0.880 - 15
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.883 - 16
XS4ALL - First Class Internet
XS4ALL First Class Internets, Televisie en Bellen. Voor veilig en betrouwbaar internet. Al jaren bekroond voor de allerbeste service.
Close cos 0.882 - 17
Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation
The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …
Close cos 0.879 - 18
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.879 - 19
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
Close cos 0.876 - 20
NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking
WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity
Close cos 0.875
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to isc.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Internet Systems Consortium uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Internet Systems Consortium is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:149.20.0.0/20 ip6:2001:04F8::0/32 ip6:2001:500:60::65…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ckxXdoIq27XGYE4ATbBYQOBeV7PTJWRxYe-PX…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=wg4m8dWi3XVPRYmtBoy6xSKp3juhxIWa6UdxjZkNQCg
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:149.20.0.0/20 ip6:2001:04F8::0/32 ip6:2001:500:60::65…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Internet Systems Consortium adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on isc.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on isc.org 6/20
- Font Awesome · not on isc.org 5/20
- Mailchimp 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on isc.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on isc.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on isc.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on isc.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on isc.org 4/20
- nginx · not on isc.org 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on isc.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on isc.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on isc.org 3/20
- Zendesk · not on isc.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on isc.org 3/20