# Dasient

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dasient/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Dasient was a web anti-malware company founded in 2008 in Sunnyvale, California by ex-Google engineers Neil Daswani and Shariq Rizvi with McKinsey consultant Ameet Ranadive. It sold cloud-based protection against web-based malware and malvertising, scanning customer websites and ad networks with its Malware Analysis Platform. It shipped a JSON-RPC over HTTP "Web Protection API" that let customers schedule and run on-demand malware scans of individual domains and URLs, with tiered pricing by scans per day. Twitter acquired Dasient in January 2012 for a reported $19.1 million; the product was retired, dasient.com went dark in late 2012, and the domain is now a parked defensive registration held by Twitter. This company is DEFUNCT and has no live API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Enterprise, Security, Malware, Web Security, Anti Malware, Malvertising, Defunct, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dasient/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.