MERCURY

MERCURY Cited Dns API

The cited-dns API from MERCURY — 1 operation(s) for cited-dns.

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GET /buy/dns MERCURY Cited DNS Snapshot #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: MERCURY x402 storefront Cited Dns API
  version: '1'
  x-spec: mercury-storefront/1
  description: Agent-payable resources over HTTP 402 (x402). LIVE — Base mainnet, real USDC, no token. Only currently-deliverable routes are listed (web-fetch is the live paid SKU; mints are gated off). Free discovery at /.well-known/x402, /x402/discovery, /catalog, and /manifest.
servers:
- url: https://network.mercury-hq.com
tags:
- name: cited-dns
paths:
  /buy/dns:
    get:
      summary: MERCURY Cited DNS Snapshot
      description: Domain → a SIGNED, timestamped DNS snapshot (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME, SOA), normalised + sorted into a byte-stable record set with an offline-verifiable provenance receipt — proving exactly what the zone resolved to at that moment. Keyless, no LLM, no signup. (Normalisation is deterministic; DNS itself is mutable across time/TTL/geo — which is the very reason the snapshot is timestamped + signed.)
      operationId: buy_cited_dns
      tags:
      - cited-dns
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Delivered after the x402 payment settles on Base mainnet.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  ok:
                    type: boolean
                    description: true on success; false on an honest failure (never charged for a stub)
                  url:
                    type: string
                    description: the resolved domain (echoed in the `url` field for gate uniformity)
                  domain:
                    type: string
                    description: the normalised, lower-cased, trailing-dot-stripped domain that was resolved
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    description: 200 on a successful resolve (HTTP-shaped status for gate uniformity)
                  text:
                    type: string
                    description: canonical sorted-key JSON of `data` — the exact string the receipt signs over
                  resolvedAt:
                    type: string
                    description: ISO-8601 resolve time (provenance metadata; binds WHEN the snapshot was taken)
                  fetchedAt:
                    type: string
                    description: alias of resolvedAt for gate/receipt uniformity
                  data:
                    type: object
                    description: the deterministic, normalised DNS snapshot
                    properties:
                      domain:
                        type: string
                      resolver:
                        description: pinned resolver IPs used, or 'system'
                        type:
                        - array
                        - string
                        items:
                          type: string
                      records:
                        type: object
                        description: normalised record sets keyed by type (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME, SOA); sorted + de-duplicated
                        properties:
                          A:
                            type: array
                            items:
                              type: string
                          AAAA:
                            type: array
                            items:
                              type: string
                          MX:
                            type: array
                            items:
                              type: object
                              properties:
                                priority:
                                  type: integer
                                exchange:
                                  type: string
                          NS:
                            type: array
                            items:
                              type: string
                          TXT:
                            type: array
                            items:
                              type: string
                          CNAME:
                            type: array
                            items:
                              type: string
                          SOA:
                            type:
                            - object
                            - 'null'
                            properties:
                              nsname:
                                type: string
                              hostmaster:
                                type: string
                              serial:
                                type: integer
                              refresh:
                                type: integer
                              retry:
                                type: integer
                              expire:
                                type: integer
                              minttl:
                                type: integer
                      summary:
                        type: object
                        description: record counts per type (derived, deterministic)
                      flags:
                        type: object
                        description: derived convenience flags (hasSpf, hasDmarc) pointing into TXT
                      partialErrors:
                        type: object
                        description: present only if a record type had a transport error; never fabricated data
                      snapshot:
                        type: string
                        description: 'rubric/version tag: mercury-cited-dns-v1'
                  error:
                    type: string
                    description: present only when ok:false
                required:
                - ok
                - url
                additionalProperties: true
        '402':
          description: Payment Required — retry with an x402-signed payment (e.g. x402-fetch). Terms are in the challenge body (x402 v1).
      parameters:
      - name: domain
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          maxLength: 253
          description: the domain to resolve (e.g. example.com). A full URL is also accepted; its hostname is used.
        description: the domain to resolve (e.g. example.com). A full URL is also accepted; its hostname is used.
      - name: url
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          maxLength: 2048
          description: alternative to ?domain= — any http/https URL; the registrable hostname is resolved.
        description: alternative to ?domain= — any http/https URL; the registrable hostname is resolved.
      x-payment-info:
        protocols:
        - x402
        scheme: exact
        price: $0.006
        currency: USDC
        network: base
        networkCaip2: eip155:8453
        testnet: false
        asset: '0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913'
        payTo: '0xe10B9d44e72A29B9c19da02981FFCd875308e3C1'
        facilitator: https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402
        x402Version: 1
      x-x402:
        scheme: exact
        price: $0.006
        currency: USDC
        network: base
        networkCaip2: eip155:8453
        asset: '0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913'
        payTo: '0xe10B9d44e72A29B9c19da02981FFCd875308e3C1'
        facilitator: https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402
        testnet: false
        maxTimeoutSeconds: 60
x-payment-info:
  protocols:
  - x402
  network: base
  currency: USDC
  payTo: '0xe10B9d44e72A29B9c19da02981FFCd875308e3C1'
  facilitator: https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402
  testnet: false
  spec: mercury-storefront/1