dfn.de
DFN
Who runs DFN, 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
- switch.ch
Measured from DFN’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit DFN01 · 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
- 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.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- EU company
- 1 tool
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to DFN
None of the 60 sites closest to DFN match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy 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.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- Analytics
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/script.tagged-events.outbound-links.file-downloads.js
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=TdQByV6omDQj06SD
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=AHsv25T5W2sYiYNmYvU6z8a2G1H_7FM0vJOZf5uOhAE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Microsoft 365 · not on dfn.de 14/20
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- Adobe · not on dfn.de 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- Atlassian · not on dfn.de 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on dfn.de 7/20
- nginx · not on dfn.de 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on dfn.de 5/20
- WordPress 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on dfn.de 5/20
- Zoom · not on dfn.de 5/20
- jQuery · not on dfn.de 4/20
- DocuSign · not on dfn.de 4/20
- Zendesk · not on dfn.de 3/20
- Matomo · not on dfn.de 3/20