afnic.fr
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
- EURid
Measured from Afnic’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Afnic01 · 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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Afnic match.
- 01
For confidence online | SIDN
At SIDN you can check your .nl domain name. We also can offer you security services, like SIDN BrandGuard.
Very close - 02
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 03
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 04
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Very close - 05
.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.
Close - 06
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 07
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.
Very close - 08
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 09
RFC Editor
The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
Very close - 10
NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre
NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre
Very close - 11
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.
Very close - 12
Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages
project to standardise HTML class-name based formats
Close - 13
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
Close - 14
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Close - 15
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification
Close - 16
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close - 17
Language selection | Belgium.be
country in western Europe
Close - 18
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Close - 19
NIC México
Very close - 20
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.
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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
What changed
Price and policy 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.afnic.fr/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.afnic.fr/wp-sites/themes/bootstrap-basic4/assets/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js?v…
- Font Awesome asset https://www.afnic.fr/wp-sites/themes/bootstrap-basic4/assets/fontawesome/css/all.min.css?…
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Q8YbntOl2bE8f9fx3VPfiiFUDfy1wQlONvOpkZUEBok
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on afnic.fr 11/20
- Atlassian · not on afnic.fr 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- nginx · not on afnic.fr 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on afnic.fr 6/20
- jQuery 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on afnic.fr 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on afnic.fr 4/20
- Salesforce · not on afnic.fr 4/20
- Bootstrap 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on afnic.fr 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on afnic.fr 4/20
- cdnjs · not on afnic.fr 4/20
- Apple Business · not on afnic.fr 3/20
- YouTube embeds · not on afnic.fr 3/20