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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
None of the 60 sites closest to The Register 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 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 and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
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