icann.org
ICANN
Who runs ICANN, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Internet governance alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Measured from ICANN’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ICANN01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 1 tool
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
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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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
standards organization overseeing IP addresses
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
APNIC
A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community
Very close - 05
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.
Close - 06
AFRINIC - Regional Internet Registry for Africa
AFRINIC is responsible for the allocation and management of Internet numbers (IPv4, IPv6 & ASNs) resources in Africa.
Very close - 07
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Very close - 08 LACNIC lacnic.net
Regional Internet Registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions
Very close - 09
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 - 10
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
Very close - 11
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 12
Internet country-code top level domain for Canada
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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 - 14
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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Registry
internet country code top-level domain for India
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development and dissemination of internet software and tools
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U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
Very close - 18
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 - 19
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 20
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.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ICANN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ICANN 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 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.
similarity × popularity
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- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630a9c8f38131b-HAM
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=mJbv948owArPaPuHqQq1zD12aKzhxRobB5UcwWt…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=aOY-Hcx8bh7elpA4JF6lNqvJRG94iusCUENaibkXxxE
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-MDxsT9BOgVqLo5wCzRehwtG6
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on icann.org 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Font Awesome · not on icann.org 8/20
- PHP · not on icann.org 8/20
- jQuery · not on icann.org 7/20
- Bootstrap · not on icann.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on icann.org 6/20
- nginx · not on icann.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on icann.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on icann.org 5/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- Matomo · not on icann.org 4/20
- WordPress · not on icann.org 4/20
- DocuSign · not on icann.org 3/20
- Apple Business · not on icann.org 3/20