# OpenDNS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/opendns/  
**Website:** https://www.opendns.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

OpenDNS is a cloud-delivered recursive DNS and internet security service founded in 2005 and acquired by Cisco in 2015, where its enterprise capabilities now form the foundation of the Cisco Umbrella platform. OpenDNS continues to offer free consumer products - OpenDNS Home and OpenDNS Family Shield - providing recursive DNS resolution, phishing and malware blocking, and content filtering with parental controls across every device on a home network, all managed through the OpenDNS dashboard. Enterprise DNS-layer security, secure web gateway, and the Investigate threat-intelligence API have migrated to Cisco Umbrella (umbrella.cisco.com). Added to the API Evangelist network as a Greylock portfolio company in the cybersecurity sector.

## Kin Score — 12.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## 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).

## Security (1)

- **Opendns Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Cybersecurity, DNS, Security, Content Filtering, Threat Intelligence, Networking, Cisco

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