purl.org

purl.org

Who runs purl.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest persistent identifiers alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
w3id.org

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs purl.org

purl.org

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

02 · Privacy

What purl.org 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 18 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on purl.org’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to purl.org

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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to purl.org match.

  1. 01
    w3id.org English No trackers

    w3id.org - Permanent Identifiers for the Web

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  2. 02
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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  3. 03
    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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  4. 04
    Registry charlestonroadregistry.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Expanding the online frontier | Google Registry

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  5. 05
    Bitly bitly.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Bitly | Short URLs, QR Codes, and More

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  6. 06
    is-a.dev English No trackers

    is-a.dev - Free subdomains for developers

    A service to allow developers to get free `.is-a.dev` subdomains

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  7. 07
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

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  8. 08
    I Got Games igg.com English 1 tracker

    GAMERS AT HEART - Global Free Online Games Portal

    Your portal to IGG's games.

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  9. 09
    Rapidgator rapidgator.net English 1 tracker

    Rapidgator

    Download file from Rapidgator. Cloud hosting solutions, safe and secure file hosting

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  10. 10
    mail.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Free email accounts | Register today at mail.com

    Email how it is supposed to be: ✔ Free, simple and secure ✔ Manage multiple mail accounts in one place, from any device ✔ Sign up today!

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  11. 11
    Appwrite appwrite.io English No trackers

    Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents

    Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.

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  12. 12
    Yandex yandex.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Yandex — fast Internet search

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  13. 13
    Wakelet wakelet.com English No trackers

    Wakelet | Save, Organise and Share Content in Collections

    Wakelet is the all-in-one platform for curating, organising and sharing content. Build collections for your classroom, team or personal projects. Free to start.

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  14. 14
    Short.io short.io English No trackers

    Short.io — URL shortener with custom domains & analytics

    Free URL shortener with custom branded domains, analytics, and QR codes. Create up to 1,000 branded short links at no cost. No credit card required.

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  15. 15
    Haxx haxx.se Top 10K English No trackers

    Haxx

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  16. 16
    Archbee archbee.com English 2 trackers

    Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform

    Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.

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    Gravatar gravatar.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Your Free Avatar, Profile, and Link In Bio | Gravatar

    Create a global avatar and profile image with Gravatar. Get a free one-page personal site to showcase your identity and connect across the web.

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  18. 18
    ifconfig.me Top 10K English No trackers

    What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me

    Get my IP Address

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    Radix radix.website English No trackers

    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.

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  20. 20
    Cloudflare cloudflare.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles purl.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones purl.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what purl.org 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 = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
30 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to purl.org’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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