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SURF
Who runs SURF, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national research and education network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- DFN
Measured from SURF’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit SURF01 · 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.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on SURF’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to SURF
None of the 60 sites closest to SURF match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy 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.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-drupal-cache: HIT
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mailplus.nl include:soverin.net include:spf.protection…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-drupal-cache: HIT)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX surf-nl.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=bb247cf6e0162a264df1886109d59464c0de78dd3…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=g7uZuYdCUCKUQJEh
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=eBmfmfF08EHY7J6CNUWO3k_iKc1hisioiNIYDZ7l3nc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on surf.nl 9/20
- PHP 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on surf.nl 7/20
- WordPress · not on surf.nl 6/20
- Atlassian · not on surf.nl 6/20
- Zoom · not on surf.nl 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on surf.nl 5/20
- jQuery · not on surf.nl 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on surf.nl 5/20
- Adobe 4/20
- Miro · not on surf.nl 4/20
- Salesforce · not on surf.nl 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on surf.nl 4/20