DFN

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs DFN

DFN dfn.de

Wikidata: German association for academic research

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What DFN 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.

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   switch.ch No trackers

   top level domain of Switzerland

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   GÉANT geant.org

   organization

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   SURF surf.nl English No trackers

   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.

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   Renater renater.fr English 1 tracker

   Accueil - English - Renater

   Data transfer and access security is a key issue for education and research, which is why RENATER is constantly strengthening its trusted framework. At the service of the Education-Research community, RENATER offers a highly reliable, secure network, facilitating collaboration and...

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   Internet2 internet2.edu English 3 trackers

   Home - Internet2

   Internet2 offers a secure high-speed network, cloud solutions, and services to help your organization succeed.

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   Jisc jisc.ac.uk

   UK charity providing expertise in digital technology for research and education

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   RNP rnp.br Top 10K Portuguese 1 tracker

   RNP | REDE NACIONAL DE ENSINO E PESQUISA

   academic internet backbone organization in Brazil

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   Reannz reannz.co.nz English 1 tracker

   Home :: REANNZ

   The Research Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) provides the pathways and connections for global research and science collaboration. REANNZ designs, builds and operates New Zealand’s high-performance, advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN). REANNZ supports and enables its users to access the network for data intensive research, and provides value add services to enable eResearch collaboration and data transfers around New Zealand and within the global NREN ecosystem.

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   AARNet aarnet.net.au Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Welcome to AARNet | AARNet

   Australia's national research and education network. We deliver fast and reliable internet connectivity, cyber security, data and collaboration services.

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    CANARIE canarie.ca

    research and education network in Canada

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    Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres helmholtz.de English No trackers

    Home

    Home

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    SINTEF sintef.no English 1 tracker

    SINTEF - Applied research, technology and innovation

    SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research organisations. Every year we carry out several thousand projects for customers large and small.

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    Fraunhofer Society fraunhofer.de Top 10K German No trackers

    Startseite Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

    Die Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft mit Sitz in Deutschland ist eine der führenden Organisationen für anwendungsorientierte Forschung mit Forschungsschwerpunkten in zukunftsrelevanten Schlüsseltechnologien und dem Transfer von Forschungsergebnissen in die Industrie.

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    ercim.eu English No trackers

    Home

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    MITRE Corporation mitre.org Top 10K

    company

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    APNIC apnic.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    APNIC

    A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community

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    inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

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    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica cwi.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    Home

    Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

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    Denic denic.de English 1 tracker

    DENIC eG: DENIC – Registry for all .de domains

    As the registry, DENIC manages all .de domains and ensures that they are accessible at all times.

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    RIPE Network Coordination Centre ripe.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles DFN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones DFN 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 DFN 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.