aarnet.net.au
AARNet
Who runs AARNet, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest research and education network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Reannz
Measured from AARNet’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit AARNet01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs AARNet
AARNet aarnet.net.au
Australia's national research and education network. We deliver fast and reliable internet connectivity, cyber security, data and collaboration services.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What AARNet tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to AARNet
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AARNet, thumbs down if it isn’t.
14 of the 60 sites closest to AARNet match.
- 01
Home - DFN
German association for academic research
Very close - 02
SURF is the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research | SURF.nl
More than 100 education and research institutions in the Netherlands work together in the SURF cooperative to fully utilise the opportunities of digitalisation. Our goal: improved and more flexible education and research.
Very close - 03 switch.ch No trackers
top level domain of Switzerland
Very close - 04
Home
Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Close - 05
Home
Home
Close - 06
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Close - 07
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Close - 08
Home
Close - 09
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Close - 10
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close - 11
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close - 12
I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN
I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.
Close - 13
For confidence online | SIDN
At SIDN you can check your .nl domain name. We also can offer you security services, like SIDN BrandGuard.
Close - 14
Find government payments and services | myGov
country in Oceania
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles AARNet’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones AARNet uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AARNet adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 354 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to AARNet’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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Quicksand
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56319dcfafe62d4-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap-icons@1.13.1/font/bootstrap-icons.min.css
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX aarnet-net-au.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_PqZlh8IoRMeBzHpBYd-nwQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Google Search Console · not on aarnet.net.au 15/20
- Apple Business · not on aarnet.net.au 12/20
- Atlassian · not on aarnet.net.au 8/20
- PHP · not on aarnet.net.au 8/20
- nginx · not on aarnet.net.au 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- WordPress · not on aarnet.net.au 6/20
- Adobe · not on aarnet.net.au 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on aarnet.net.au 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- jQuery · not on aarnet.net.au 5/20
- DocuSign · not on aarnet.net.au 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on aarnet.net.au 4/20
- Zoom 4/20
- Brevo · not on aarnet.net.au 4/20