SURF

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs SURF

SURF surf.nl

More than 100 education and research institutions in the Netherlands work together in the SURF cooperative to fully utilise the opportunities of digitalisation. Our goal: improved and more flexible education and research.

Wikidata: cooperative for ICT in Dutch education and research organisations

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

In English

02 · Privacy

What SURF 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.

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   DFN dfn.de Top 10K English No trackers

   Home - DFN

   German association for academic research

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   Jisc jisc.ac.uk

   UK charity providing expertise in digital technology for research and education

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   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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   GÉANT geant.org

   organization

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   Renater renater.fr English 1 tracker

   Accueil - English - Renater

   Data transfer and access security is a key issue for education and research, which is why RENATER is constantly strengthening its trusted framework. At the service of the Education-Research community, RENATER offers a highly reliable, secure network, facilitating collaboration and...

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   RNP rnp.br Top 10K Portuguese 1 tracker

   RNP | REDE NACIONAL DE ENSINO E PESQUISA

   academic internet backbone organization in Brazil

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   CANARIE canarie.ca

   research and education network in Canada

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   switch.ch No trackers

   top level domain of Switzerland

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   AARNet aarnet.net.au Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Welcome to AARNet | AARNet

   Australia's national research and education network. We deliver fast and reliable internet connectivity, cyber security, data and collaboration services.

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    Reannz reannz.co.nz English 1 tracker

    Home :: REANNZ

    The Research Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) provides the pathways and connections for global research and science collaboration. REANNZ designs, builds and operates New Zealand’s high-performance, advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN). REANNZ supports and enables its users to access the network for data intensive research, and provides value add services to enable eResearch collaboration and data transfers around New Zealand and within the global NREN ecosystem.

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    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica cwi.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    Home

    Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

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    NWO nwo.nl English 2 trackers

    Homepage | NWO

    Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

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    TNO tno.nl English 1 tracker

    Innovation for life | TNO

    Creating impactful innovations for the sustainable wellbeing and prosperity of society.

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    • AB Tasty
    • ASP.NET
    • Atlassian

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    SINTEF sintef.no English 1 tracker

    SINTEF - Applied research, technology and innovation

    SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research organisations. Every year we carry out several thousand projects for customers large and small.

    • Adobe
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    inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

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    ORCID orcid.org Top 10K English No trackers

    ORCID

    non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

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    ercim.eu English No trackers

    Home

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    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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    • Bootstrap
    • cdnjs

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    OCLC oclc.org Top 10K English No trackers

    global library cooperative

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    • Meta Business Suite

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    Crossref crossref.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Crossref

    Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SURF’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SURF 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 SURF 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.