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Afnic

Who runs Afnic, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest domain name registry alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Afnic

Afnic afnic.fr

Afnic is the Internet registry for .fr (France), .re (Ile de la Réunion), .pm (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon), .yt (Mayotte), .wf and .tf domain names.

Wikidata: Internet country-code top level domain for France

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Afnic 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 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Afnic

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

Fewer trackers than AfnicNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Afnic match.

  1. 01
    SIDN sidn.nl English No trackers

    For confidence online | SIDN

    At SIDN you can check your .nl domain name. We also can offer you security services, like SIDN BrandGuard.

    Compare SIDN with Afnic →
  2. 02
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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

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  3. 03
    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

    international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

    Compare DataCite with Afnic →
  4. 04
    inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

    Compare inria.fr with Afnic →
  5. 05
    nic.ai English No trackers

    .ai Official Registry Operator Website

    Shape the future with .ai, the world’s leading domain for innovators and entrepreneurs building cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions. Learn more at the .ai Official Registry Operator Website.

    Compare nic.ai with Afnic →
  6. 06
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

    Compare DOI.org query endpoint with Afnic →
  7. 07
    Radix radix.website English No trackers

    The world’s largest portfolio registry for new domains | Radix Registry

    Radix is a leading new domain registry, offering an extensive domain portfolio that empowers digital identities across the globe.

    Compare Radix with Afnic →
  8. 08
    ORCID orcid.org Top 10K English No trackers

    ORCID

    non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

    Compare ORCID with Afnic →
  9. 09
    RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English No trackers

    RFC Editor

    The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.

    Compare RFC Editor with Afnic →
  10. 10
    NIC.IO nic.io Top 10K English No trackers

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

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

    Compare NIC.IO with Afnic →
  11. 11
    Gandi gandi.net Top 100 English No trackers

    Gandi.net - Gandi.net: Domain Names, Web Hosting, SSL Certificates and Emails

    ➤ Manage your websites, your emails, your SSL certificates, and VPS servers. ✅ Included with a domain name: 1 SSL certificate, Unlimited aliases & forwarding, and our LiveDNS.

    Compare Gandi with Afnic →
  12. 12
    Microformats microformats.org English No trackers

    Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages

    project to standardise HTML class-name based formats

    Compare Microformats with Afnic →
  13. 13
    La Quadrature du Net laquadrature.net English No trackers

    La Quadrature du Net

    La Quadrature du Net promeut et défend les libertés fondamentales remises en question par certains usages des outils informatiques. L’association lutte par exemple contre la censure et la surveillance, que celles-ci viennent des États ou des entreprises privées. Elle questionne la façon dont le numé

    Compare La Quadrature du Net with Afnic →
  14. 14
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

    Compare Wikimedia with Afnic →
  15. 15

    Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)

    Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification

    Compare Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group with Afnic →
  16. 16
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

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

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  17. 17
    Belgium belgium.be Top 10K English No trackers

    Language selection | Belgium.be

    country in western Europe

    Compare Belgium with Afnic →
  18. 18
    Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

    Home | Grants.gov

    USA federal website

    Compare Grants.gov with Afnic →
  19. 19
    NIC México nic.mx English No trackers

    NIC México

    Compare NIC México with Afnic →
  20. 20
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Compare Codeberg e.V. with Afnic →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Afnic’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Afnic uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Afnic 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 · 8 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
165 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Afnic’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.

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