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Handle System
Who runs Handle System, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest persistent identifier registry alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- DOI.org query endpoint
Measured from Handle System’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Handle System01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Handle System
Handle System handle.net
Handle.Net Registry is a DONA MPA.
Wikidata: technology specification for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers for digital objects and other resources on the Internet
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Handle System 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Handle System’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Handle System
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Handle System, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 02
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 03
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 04
Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Close - 05
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.
Very close - 06
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 - 07
Registry
internet country code top-level domain for India
Very close - 08
Afnic, Internet domain name registry solution Home - Afnic
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.
Very close - 09
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 10
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.
Close - 11
U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
Very close - 12
EURid | EURid
EURid is the registry manager of the .eu, .ею and .ευ domain names.
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APNIC
A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community
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AFRINIC - Regional Internet Registry for Africa
AFRINIC is responsible for the allocation and management of Internet numbers (IPv4, IPv6 & ASNs) resources in Africa.
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American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARIN is a nonprofit, member-based organization that administers IP addresses & ASNs in support of the operation and growth of the Internet.
Close - 16
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 - 17 LACNIC lacnic.net
Regional Internet Registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
standards organization overseeing IP addresses
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.ORG - Power Your Inspiration. Connect Your World.
For diverse global communities & individuals who want to do great things online, .ORG is purpose-driven to empower & connect those who inspire the world.
Close - 20
Singapore Network Information Centre
SGNIC is Singapore's official .SG domain registry and SMS Sender ID Registry
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Handle System’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Handle System 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 Handle System 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 58 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Handle System’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
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56316eb384d0b2f-HAM
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:23.25.109.33/28 ip4:64.4.102.182/30 ip4:209.145.85.65/2…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS linda.ns.cloudflare.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on handle.net 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on handle.net 10/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Bootstrap · not on handle.net 8/20
- jQuery · not on handle.net 8/20
- Font Awesome · not on handle.net 7/20
- Atlassian · not on handle.net 7/20
- PHP · not on handle.net 6/20
- jsDelivr · not on handle.net 5/20
- cdnjs · not on handle.net 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on handle.net 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on handle.net 5/20
- nginx · not on handle.net 5/20
- Apple Business · not on handle.net 5/20
- Matomo · not on handle.net 5/20
- Amazon SES 4/20