DNS Check

DNS Check is a domain DNS monitoring service that lets teams monitor, share, and troubleshoot DNS records across multiple record types (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, TXT). The platform detects unresponsive name servers, incorrect IP addresses, missing or duplicated records, SPF record problems, and out-of-sync name servers, with notifications when records change or fail. The DNS Check REST API provides programmatic access to DNS record and DNS record group monitoring using a 32-character API key passed as a query parameter.

DNS Check publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including DNS Record Monitoring API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include DNS, DNS Monitoring, Domain Monitoring, DNS Records, and Infrastructure Monitoring.

DNS Check’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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28.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

1 published contract

DNSDNS MonitoringDomain Monitoring DNS Records Infrastructure Monitoring Networking

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

DNS Record Monitoring

GET /api/v1/groups/{group_uuid}/{record_id}

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 28.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.3 / 17

Access Clarity 4.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Domains and DNS (registrars, registries, DNS)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

DNS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

DNS Check REST API

RESTful JSON API for managing DNS record monitors and DNS record group monitors at DNSCheck.co. All requests use GET and authenticate via a 32-character API key passed as the ap...

DNS Check DNS Record Monitoring API

The DNS Record Monitoring API from DNS Check — 1 operation(s) for dns record monitoring.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

DNS Check DNS Record Monitoring API

OPEN COLLECTION

DNS Check API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dns Check Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dns Check Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dns Check Agentic Access

1 operation

1 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

API Documentation

API Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dns-check
name: DNS Check
description: DNS Check is a domain DNS monitoring service that lets teams monitor, share, and troubleshoot DNS records across
  multiple record types (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, TXT). The platform detects unresponsive name servers,
  incorrect IP addresses, missing or duplicated records, SPF record problems, and out-of-sync name servers, with notifications
  when records change or fail. The DNS Check REST API provides programmatic access to DNS record and DNS record group monitoring
  using a 32-character API key passed as a query parameter.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dns-check.png
tags:
- DNS
- DNS Monitoring
- Domain Monitoring
- DNS Records
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Networking
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dns-check/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: dns-check:rest-api
  name: DNS Check REST API
  description: RESTful JSON API for managing DNS record monitors and DNS record group monitors at DNSCheck.co. All requests
    use GET and authenticate via a 32-character API key passed as the api_key query parameter; the API is versioned in the
    URL path (v1).
  humanURL: https://www.dnscheck.co/api
  baseURL: https://www.dnscheck.co/api
  tags:
  - DNS
  - DNS Monitoring
  - DNS Records
  - Domain Monitoring
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dnscheck.co/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.dnscheck.co/api/generate-key
  - type: DNS Record Monitoring
    url: https://www.dnscheck.co/api/dns-record-monitoring
  - type: DNS Record Group Monitoring
    url: https://www.dnscheck.co/api/dns-record-group-monitoring
- aid: dns-check:dns-check-dns-record-monitoring-api
  name: DNS Check DNS Record Monitoring API
  description: The DNS Record Monitoring API from DNS Check — 1 operation(s) for dns record monitoring.
  humanURL: https://www.dnscheck.co/api
  baseURL: https://www.dnscheck.co/api
  tags:
  - DNS Record Monitoring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dns-check-dns-record-monitoring-api-openapi.yml
common:
- url: https://www.dnscheck.co/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.dnscheck.co/blog/feed.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/dns-check-capability-edges.yml
  name: DNS Check Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/dns-check-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dns-check-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dns-check-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dns-checker
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dnscheck.co
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.dnscheck.co/documentation
- type: API Documentation
  url: https://www.dnscheck.co/api
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.dnscheck.co/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.dnscheck.co/signup
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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