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The Register
Who runs The Register, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Computer Weekly
Measured from The Register’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Register01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Register
The Register theregister.com
All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register
Wikidata: software and computer news website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Register 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
4 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Register
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Register, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 Computer Weekly computerweekly.com
digital magazine and website for IT professionals in the United Kingdom
Very close - 02
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close - 03
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close - 04
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 05
InfoWorld
Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies.
Very close - 06
Computerworld
Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and Google.
Very close - 07 venturebeat.com Top 10K
American technology news and analysis website
Very close - 08
heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online
News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.
Very close - 09
InformationWeek, News & Analysis Tech Leaders Trust
News analysis and commentary on information technology strategy.
Very close - 10
TechRadar | Dein Technik-Kaufberater
Die aktuellsten News und Produkttests im Bereich Technik, Computer, Home Entertainment Systeme, Gadgets und mehr
Very close - 11
The New Stack | AI-native software engineering news & analysis
Technology is complex. We make it clear. Go beyond the headline on cloud native, DevOps, open source, and AI-native software development news.
Very close - 12
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 13
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close - 14
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
Very close - 15
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 16
English-language computer magazine
Very close - 17
CIO.com - The voice of IT leadership
Find the peer insights and expert advice IT leaders need to create business value with technology, drive innovation and develop their careers.
Very close - 18
online trade publication and social community
Very close - 19
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close - 20
PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Register’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Register 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 The Register 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Register’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather:300,400,700,900
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: qbAGFqdUyfUKsPAhn-vnR3SMAOWRqTwv8S8KdtPryQxfsN8GNx6GnA==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80025279
- Email delivery
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gerald.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=CgoF5YVzVGhTo8fSZwIO0hWZAs8t2Gy5QZHk3topJwQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Tag Manager 13/20
- PHP · not on theregister.com 12/20
- WordPress · not on theregister.com 12/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on theregister.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on theregister.com 9/20
- nginx · not on theregister.com 6/20
- Mimecast · not on theregister.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on theregister.com 5/20
- YouTube embeds · not on theregister.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on theregister.com 5/20
- Parse.ly · not on theregister.com 5/20