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NLnet Labs

Who runs NLnet Labs, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DNS and routing software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
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Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Internet Systems Consortium

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs NLnet Labs

NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl

Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

Wikidata: Dutch network research laboratory

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

02 · Privacy

What NLnet Labs 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; 14 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to NLnet Labs

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No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01

    development and dissemination of internet software and tools

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  2. 02
    PowerDNS Authoritative Server powerdns.com English 2 trackers

    Home

    Boost subscriber performance by up to 25% for less than 1% of your overall 5G network investment.

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  3. 03
    Knot DNS knot-dns.cz English 1 tracker

    Knot DNS

    High-performance authoritative DNS server

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  4. 04
    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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  5. 05
    Quad9 quad9.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

    A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

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  6. 06
    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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  7. 07
    Linux Foundation linuxfoundation.org 2 trackers

    Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust

    Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.

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  8. 08
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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

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  9. 09
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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  10. 10
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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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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  12. 12
    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority iana.org Top 10K No trackers

    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

    standards organization overseeing IP addresses

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  13. 13
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  14. 14
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

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  15. 15
    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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  16. 16
    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

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  17. 17
    Shadowserver shadowserver.org English 1 tracker

    The Shadowserver Foundation

    The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone.

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  18. 18
    OpenInfra Foundation openinfra.dev English 3 trackers

    OpenInfra Foundation: We build communities who write software that runs in production - OpenInfra Foundation

    The OpenInfra Foundation is an open source foundation supporting a global community of 110,000 individuals to build and operate open infrastructure software.

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    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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  20. 20
    faitid.org Russian No trackers

    О фонде | Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what NLnet Labs 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.

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Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,195
Vector
384-d
Query
55 ms

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