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ICANN

Who runs ICANN, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Internet governance alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs ICANN

ICANN icann.org

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

Wikidata: organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet

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

02 · Privacy

What ICANN 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 17 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.

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1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to ICANN

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

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  1. 01
    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority iana.org Top 10K No trackers

    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

    standards organization overseeing IP addresses

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  2. 02
    American Registry for Internet Numbers arin.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  3. 03
    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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  4. 04
    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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  5. 05
    Internet Society internetsociety.org English 1 tracker

    Internet Society: The Internet is for Everyone - Internet Society

    The Internet Society is a global charity working to close the digital divide and advocate for a secure and open Internet that people can trust.

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  6. 06
    AFRINIC afrinic.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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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  7. 07
    IETF ietf.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force

    The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.

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  8. 08
    LACNIC lacnic.net

    Regional Internet Registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions

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  9. 09
    Afnic afnic.fr English 1 tracker

    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.

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  10. 10
    Unesco unesco.org Top 1K English 2 trackers

    UNESCO : Building Peace through Education, Science and Culture, communication and information

    Learn more about UNESCO's role, vision and results. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Our aim is to promote peace and security through international cooperation

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  11. 11
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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  12. 12

    Internet country-code top level domain for Canada

    Compare cira.ca with ICANN →
  13. 13
    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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  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.

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  15. 15
    Registry registry.in Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Registry

    internet country code top-level domain for India

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  16. 16

    development and dissemination of internet software and tools

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  17. 17
    United States Copyright Office copyright.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office

    Copyright Office Homepage

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  18. 18
    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 ICANN →
  19. 19
    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

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

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  20. 20
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ICANN 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 = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
28 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to ICANN’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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