rfc-editor.org
RFC Editor
Who runs RFC Editor, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Internet standards documentation alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- IETF
Measured from RFC Editor’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit RFC Editor01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs RFC Editor
RFC Editor rfc-editor.org
The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
Wikidata: organization which edits Requests for Comments publications
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What RFC Editor 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; 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on RFC Editor’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to RFC Editor
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to RFC Editor, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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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W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
standards organization overseeing IP addresses
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Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification
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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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Index
computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems
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Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages
project to standardise HTML class-name based formats
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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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Welcome - ETSI
ETSI provides an open, collaborative environment to develop globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications, and services.
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Координационный центр доменов .RU/.РФ
country code top-level domain for Russia and Transnistria
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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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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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Registry
internet country code top-level domain for India
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NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
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О фонде | Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development
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Home Page
API endpoint
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MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
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Registro de domínio por R$ 40,00 por ano. Registro de domínio .com.br, .net.br e demais .br. Seus endereços na Internet não podem mudar!
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international standards development organization
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international standards development organization
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles RFC Editor’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones RFC Editor 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 RFC Editor 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to RFC Editor’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: a562fcccf96762bf-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:166.84.6.31 ip4:166.84.7.238 ip6:2602:f977:800:f7f6::/64 i…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ken.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=S7F2LDRmYAIwFs4JZtnDdmZH23mNreKn8qKn2qkBcHs
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- nginx · not on rfc-editor.org 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- PHP · not on rfc-editor.org 7/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- jQuery · not on rfc-editor.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on rfc-editor.org 5/20
- Atlassian · not on rfc-editor.org 4/20
- WordPress · not on rfc-editor.org 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on rfc-editor.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on rfc-editor.org 4/20
- Matomo · not on rfc-editor.org 3/20
- OneTrust · not on rfc-editor.org 3/20
- Brevo · not on rfc-editor.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on rfc-editor.org 3/20