Alternatives and competitors

Sites like RIPE Network Coordination Centre

The 20 closest regional Internet registry alternatives to RIPE Network Coordination Centre, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to RIPE Network Coordination Centre? The closest matches are American Registry for Internet Numbers, APNIC and NLnet Labs. 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: 11 ms

01 · Entity

About RIPE Network Coordination Centre

RIPE Network Coordination Centre ripe.net

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.

Wikidata: Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia

Top 10K · #3,374 English 15 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit RIPE Network Coordination Centre

Summary by Claude

The RIPE NCC is the nonprofit Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. It allocates and registers IP addresses and AS numbers for member organizations, runs the RIPE Database and RPKI services, and acts as secretariat to the RIPE community's policy process, meetings and mailing lists.

Who it’s for: ISPs, network operators and LIR members
Business model: Membership fees

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to RIPE Network Coordination Centre’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 RIPE Network Coordination Centre

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to RIPE Network Coordination Centre, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English

01
American Registry for Internet Numbers arin.net Top 10K English

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 0.898
02
APNIC apnic.net Top 10K English

APNIC

A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community
Very close cos 0.895
03
NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

NLnet Labs - Home

Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close cos 0.886
04
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.
Close cos 0.878
05
Registry registry.in Top 10K English

Registry

internet country code top-level domain for India
Close cos 0.876
06
IETF ietf.org Top 1K English

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 0.873
07
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.
Close cos 0.873
08
inria.fr Top 10K English

Making sure you're not a bot!

French research institution in computer science
- Apple Business
Close cos 0.869
09
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ucar.edu Top 10K English

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

consortium dedicated to scientific research
Close cos 0.865
10
RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English

RFC Editor

The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
Close cos 0.866
11
Crossref crossref.org Top 10K English

Crossref

Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Close cos 0.864
12
NBER nber.org Top 10K English

National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Close cos 0.863
13
Netnod netnod.se Top 10K English

Start | Netnod

internet exchange in Sweden
Close cos 0.861
14
OSF osf.io Top 10K English

OSF

tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.864
15
DFN dfn.de Top 10K English

Home - DFN

German association for academic research
Close cos 0.860
16
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica cwi.nl Top 10K English

Home

Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Close cos 0.860
17
Better Business Bureau bbb.org Top 10K English

American organization
Close cos 0.858
18
DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

Home Page

API endpoint
Close cos 0.859
19
Raspberry Pi Foundation raspberrypi.org Top 10K English

Teach, learn, and make with the Raspberry Pi Foundation

We are a charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.
Close cos 0.858
20
Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English

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 0.858

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What RIPE Network Coordination Centre is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Analytics: Matomo page source: _paq.push(
Live chat & support: Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:193.0.19.0/24 ip6:2001:67c:2e8:11::/64 include:mail.zendes…
Cookie consent: OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=5b56bd2f7a8e49c08ac2ada053e80797
CDN: Akamai header akamai-grn: 0.0a1d1002.1793957485.33dae358
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting: Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:193.0.19.0/24 ip6:2001:67c:2e8:11::/64 include:mail.zendes…
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms67751268
Email delivery: Brevo TXT v=spf1 ip4:193.0.19.0/24 ip6:2001:67c:2e8:11::/64 include:mail.zendes…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9dc07873a943b8b6ea812fb3747cb4e8332ef61d8…
Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=hv6DqD0eixJVkv6U
Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=gald0QJawuRiDwOWptmExBQ/fIHLfDUHAKzhiRi…
Canva TXT canva-site-verification=OXBJeXuzzmyUDU6WSHl0Ng
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=9zU35i5d8RKlwcp3slIZY5tvyyaId9Pjfo-4HOUIJtg
Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=QptqrRufWKeDJ1y3mG0kPOaXJj9ApWlaLvPtTcaV
Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_dPvgSmAFSuKoW25ykWqtfw

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what RIPE Network Coordination Centre adds or drops shows up here.

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.