w3id.org
w3id.org
Who runs w3id.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest persistent identifier service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- DOI.org query endpoint
Measured from w3id.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit w3id.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs w3id.org
w3id.org
Secure, permanent URLs for your Web application that will stand the test of time.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What w3id.org 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on w3id.org’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to w3id.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to w3id.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to w3id.org match.
- 01
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 02
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 03
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 04
Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Close - 05
Handle.Net Registry
Handle.Net Registry is a DONA MPA.
Close - 06
Hyphanet
free software
Close - 07
sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!
Sourceware free software
Close - 08
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification
Close - 09
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close - 10
Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages
project to standardise HTML class-name based formats
Close - 11
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Close - 12
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Close - 13
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close - 14
Home - Internet2
Internet2 offers a secure high-speed network, cloud solutions, and services to help your organization succeed.
Close - 15
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Close - 16
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Close - 17
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.
Close - 18
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Close - 19
Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
Close - 20
I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN
I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles w3id.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones w3id.org 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 w3id.org 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 · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to w3id.org’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
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.58 (Ubuntu)
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on w3id.org 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on w3id.org 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on w3id.org 9/20
- nginx · not on w3id.org 8/20
- jQuery · not on w3id.org 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on w3id.org 5/20
- jsDelivr · not on w3id.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on w3id.org 5/20
- PHP · not on w3id.org 5/20
- Mailgun · not on w3id.org 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on w3id.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on w3id.org 4/20
- WordPress · not on w3id.org 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on w3id.org 3/20
- Salesforce · not on w3id.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on w3id.org 2/20