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

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01 · 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.

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  1. 01
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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  2. 02
    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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  3. 03
    ORCID orcid.org Top 10K English No trackers

    ORCID

    non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

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  4. 04
    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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  5. 05
    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

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  6. 06
    Sourceware sourceware.org English No trackers

    sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!

    Sourceware free software

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  7. 07

    Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)

    Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification

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  8. 08
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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  9. 09
    Microformats microformats.org English No trackers

    Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages

    project to standardise HTML class-name based formats

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  10. 10
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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  11. 11
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    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.

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  12. 12
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  13. 13
    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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  14. 14
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

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  15. 15
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    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.

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  16. 16
    Afnic afnic.fr English 1 tracker

    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.

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  17. 17
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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  18. 18
    Unesco unesco.org Top 1K English 2 trackers

    UNESCO : Building Peace through Education, Science and Culture, communication and information

    Learn more about UNESCO's role, vision and results. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Our aim is to promote peace and security through international cooperation

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  19. 19
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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  20. 20
    DBpedia dbpedia.org English 1 tracker

    Home - DBpedia Association

    DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.

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04 · 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 = 20
Sites searched
9,196
Vector
384-d
Query
28 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

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