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 Cloudflare, WhoisFreaks, cPanel, Shodan, Microsoft Azure Private Link, Cisco Umbrella, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: API Evangelist Search, Internet of Things, Containers, and Gateway. 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…
Related providers (56)
Top 30 of 56 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 24 | exemplar |
| 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 ... | 1 | exemplar |
| 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 ... | 3 | exemplar |
| 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... | 5 | strong |
| Microsoft Azure Private Link | Microsoft Azure Private Link gives a virtual network a private IP address onto an Azure PaaS service, a partner service, or a service the customer publishes themselves, so traff... | 2 | 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... | 52 | strong |
| DomScan | Domain intelligence API for domain availability, DNS, WHOIS/RDAP, valuation, security checks, email posture, social handle checks, and monitoring workflows. Offers REST API, mac... | 2 | strong |
| Geekflare | Geekflare is an API platform for AI agents and web automation: one account and one x-api-key give access to AI-ready web scraping, web and news search with grounded answers, scr... | 1 | strong |
| APIVerve | An agent-native API marketplace exposing 300+ (367+ enumerated) ready-made REST APIs behind a single API key with a uniform JSON envelope. Offers REST, an alpha GraphQL gateway,... | 1 | strong |
| Whisper Security | Whisper Security (viaGraph B.V., Amsterdam; AS219419) gives AI agents a real, routable IPv6 /128 address as their identity — allocated from its own 2a04:2a01::/32, published in ... | 1 | strong |
| 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... | 104 | strong |
| broke2built | broke2built (Broke to Built) is Anthony Snider's independent one-engineer-plus-AI-agents company, and its API surface is built for other AI agents rather than for human develope... | 2 | strong |
| 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... | 1 | strong |
| 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-... | 1 | strong |
| Linode | Linode — operating as Akamai Cloud since Akamai's acquisition, with the Linode brand retained on the API, the CLI and the developer surface — is a cloud infrastructure provider ... | 2 | 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... | 1 | developing |
| 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 |
| 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... | 1 | 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... | 1 | 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... | 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... | 1 | 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 |
| QuantCDN | QuantCDN is an edge delivery, static site hosting, and cloud applications platform that lets teams generate, host, and maintain static and dynamic versions of their websites wit... | 1 | developing |
| 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,... | 2 | developing |
| 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... | 1 | 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 ... | 1 | 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... | 4 | developing |
| Silent Push | Silent Push is a preemptive cyber defense company that maps adversary infrastructure before it is weaponized, using a continuously scanned view of the global DNS, web content, c... | 2 | thin |
| 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 | thin |
| 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... | 1 | thin |
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in DNS, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
53.1
+30.2 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
34.8
+22.8 vs catalog 12
Spread
38.9–71.9
median 53.9 · σ 9.7
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 3Strong 12Developing 12Thin 3Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 60.8 | 23.1 | +37.7 | 30 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 | 17.6 | +34.1 | 30 |
| Access Clarity | 57.5 | 26.4 | +31.1 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.2 | 13.6 | +30.6 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 70.7 | 58.2 | +12.5 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 12.6 | 6.3 | +6.3 | 30 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 47% | 15% | +32 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 47% | 12% | +35 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 27% | 11% | +16 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 7% | 2% | +5 |
| Governance rules | 33% | 13% | +20 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Cloudflare 71.9
- 2 WhoisFreaks 67
- 3 cPanel 66.7
- 4 Shodan 65
- 5 Microsoft Azure Private Link 64.3
- 6 Cisco Umbrella 62.6
- 7 DomScan 61.5
- 8 Geekflare 61.5
- 9 APIVerve 60.8
- 10 Whisper Security 59.3
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 DomScan 69.2
- 2 Cloudflare 65.5
- 3 Whisper Security 56.7
- 4 cPanel 55.9
- 5 DomainTools 53
- 6 APIVerve 50
- 7 uChecker 45.1
- 8 Linode 44.6
- 9 broke2built 39.1
- 10 Unstoppable Domains 36.7
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
3 October 2026, across 28834
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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