Network Solutions

Network Solutions is one of the original ICANN-accredited domain registrars, founded in 1979 and operator of the .com, .net and .org registries under the InterNIC/NSF cooperative agreement through the 1990s. Today it is a consumer and small-business web-services brand of Newfold Digital, selling domain registration and transfers, WHOIS lookup, shared and WordPress web hosting, SSL/TLS certificates, professional email, a website builder, and online marketing services. It operates a domain reseller program (via ResellerClub) and an affiliate program, but does not publish a public developer API, developer portal, or OpenAPI documentation for third-party integration; the reseller and affiliate channels are the only programmatic-adjacent surfaces.

Network Solutions is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Domains, Domain Registration, Domain Registrar, and Web Hosting.

Network Solutions’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 6 more developer resources.

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9.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

0 APIs

Company Domains Domain Registration Domain Registrar Web Hosting SSL Certificates Email Website BuilderNewfold Digital

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 9.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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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
PKI and Encryption (certificate authorities, key management)	standard	53.7	-	1

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.

Security Posture 1

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

Network Solutions Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: network-solutions
name: Network Solutions
description: Network Solutions is one of the original ICANN-accredited domain registrars, founded in 1979 and operator of
  the .com, .net and .org registries under the InterNIC/NSF cooperative agreement through the 1990s. Today it is a consumer
  and small-business web-services brand of Newfold Digital, selling domain registration and transfers, WHOIS lookup, shared
  and WordPress web hosting, SSL/TLS certificates, professional email, a website builder, and online marketing services. It
  operates a domain reseller program (via ResellerClub) and an affiliate program, but does not publish a public developer
  API, developer portal, or OpenAPI documentation for third-party integration; the reseller and affiliate channels are the
  only programmatic-adjacent surfaces.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/network-solutions/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.networksolutions.com/favicon.ico
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Domains
- Domain Registration
- Domain Registrar
- Web Hosting
- SSL Certificates
- Email
- Website Builder
- Newfold Digital
apis: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
common:
- url: https://www.networksolutions.com/press
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.networksolutions.com/press/?feed=rss2
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/network-solutions-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.networksolutions.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.networksolutions.com/help
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.networksolutions.com/blog/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.newfold.com/TermsOfUse.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://newfold.com/privacy-center
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

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