DNS is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at dns.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including WhoisFreaks, APIFreaks - API Hub for Developers, Shodan, Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare, Amazon Route 53, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Security, API Evangelist Search, Network, and Scraping. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
DNS (Domain Name System) is the distributed naming system that translates human-readable domain names (like example.com) into the numerical IP addresses computers use to…
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Top 30 of 47 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| WhoisFreaks | WhoisFreaks is a domain and IP intelligence provider whose REST API suite covers live WHOIS, historical WHOIS, bulk and reverse WHOIS, IP and ASN WHOIS, live/historical/reverse ... | 23 | exemplar |
| APIFreaks - API Hub for Developers | APIFreaks is a first-party REST API hub built by JFreaks Software Solutions (Lahore, Pakistan) that ships more than 100 production endpoints behind a single API key and a single... | 27 | strong |
| Shodan | Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices. It continuously crawls the public Internet to build a searchable database of servers, IoT devices, indu... | 15 | strong |
| Cisco Umbrella | Cisco Umbrella, built on the OpenDNS platform Cisco acquired in 2015 and now sold within Cisco Secure Access, is Cisco's cloud-delivered security service: DNS-layer security, se... | 26 | strong |
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 87 | strong |
| Amazon Route 53 | Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service that provides DNS routing, domain name registration, and health checking capabilities. Ro... | 3 | strong |
| MCP360 | MCP360 is a hosted unified Model Context Protocol gateway operated by Delta4 Infotech Pvt. Ltd. that gives AI agents access to 38 tool services — 106 individual tools — through ... | 38 | developing |
| DomainTools | DomainTools is a domain and DNS intelligence company whose APIs power threat investigation, hunting, and monitoring for security teams. Its product surface spans Iris Investigat... | 12 | developing |
| Infoblox | Infoblox is a networking and cybersecurity company providing DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM) solutions and protective DNS-layer security services. Its product portfolio spans the Univ... | 21 | developing |
| Google Cloud DNS | Google Cloud DNS is a scalable, reliable, and managed authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) service running on the same infrastructure as Google. It provides low-latency, high-... | 4 | developing |
| uChecker | Russian-language email-validation platform offering bulk and single email verification (SMTP mailbox existence, MX/DNS, catch-all, disposable, role-based, spam-trap/blacklist ch... | 3 | developing |
| Amazon Route 53 Resolver | Amazon Route 53 Resolver provides DNS resolution for hybrid cloud environments, enabling DNS queries between your VPCs and on-premises networks. It allows you to configure DNS f... | 63 | developing |
| DNSFilter | DNSFilter is an AI-powered DNS security and content-filtering platform that protects organizations from cyber threats and unwanted content at the DNS layer. Its machine-learning... | 45 | developing |
| D3 | D3 is a crypto-infrastructure company building the internet's domain layer, tokenized. Through its Doma Protocol, D3 brings ICANN domain names on-chain as tokenized name assets ... | 2 | developing |
| LinkPeek | A developer utility REST API bundling ~92 JSON endpoints for URL intelligence (link preview, metadata, OpenGraph), QR generation, DNS/WHOIS/SSL security checks, and data-convers... | 6 | developing |
| Amazon Cloud Map | Amazon Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that maintains an updated registry of application resources and their locations. Define custom names for application resou... | 3 | developing |
| Bunny.net | Bunny.net is a content-delivery and edge platform offering a global CDN, edge storage, video streaming, DNS, image optimisation, edge scripting, and WAF / security shielding. Th... | 26 | developing |
| Spaceship | Spaceship is a domain registrar and domain marketplace offering domain registration, DNS management, WHOIS privacy protection, and a SellerHub resale marketplace with SafePay es... | 10 | developing |
| _done | _done is an agent-native catalog of 26 single-purpose utility REST APIs — network and DNS lookups, domain intelligence, email-authentication checks, HTTP and SEO inspection, OCR... | 27 | developing |
| Stack Machine | StackMachine is elastic, headless infrastructure for AI applications and agents. It runs existing Node.js, Python, and PHP codebases as WebAssembly with sub-5ms cold starts and ... | 1 | developing |
| Tucows | Tucows is one of the world's largest internet-services and domain companies. Its OpenSRS division runs a wholesale reseller platform for domain-name registration, DNS, TLS/SSL c... | 2 | developing |
| Unstoppable Domains | Web3 domain name service providing REST APIs for resolving crypto domain names, managing NFT domains, reverse lookups, cross-chain address resolution, domain registration, and D... | 33 | developing |
| Hetzner | Hetzner Online is a German hosting provider offering cloud servers, dedicated servers, and domain services. Hetzner provides a Cloud API for programmatic management of cloud res... | 32 | thin |
| CoreDNS | CoreDNS is a CNCF graduated DNS server written in Go that serves as the default DNS service for Kubernetes clusters. It is flexible and extensible through a plugin architecture,... | 5 | thin |
| CompleteDNS | CompleteDNS is a DNS research platform that tracks nameserver modifications and domain drops, with over twenty years of history and billions of recorded changes. The CompleteDNS... | 2 | thin |
| Frostbyte | Free API platform for developers and AI agents — 40+ services including IP Geolocation, Crypto Prices, Screenshots, DNS, Scraping, Code Execution. Free tier of 200 credits with ... | 10 | thin |
| cPanel | cPanel is a web-based control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools to simplify the management of web hosting services. cPanel exposes a family of HTTP ... | 7 | thin |
| Nacos | Nacos is an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration, and service management platform from Alibaba for building cloud-native applications, supporting Dubbo, gRPC, Sp... | 6 | thin |
| Datum | Datum is an open source network cloud built for AI, founded in 2024 and backed by $13.6M from Amplify Partners, CRV, Encoded Ventures, Cervin Ventures, Ex/Ante, Step Function, a... | 1 | thin |
| Openprovider | Openprovider is a wholesaler of Internet services and products with a unique platform from which you can find and manage all the products you need: domains, new gTLDs, SSL certi... | 35 | thin |
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