QName AI WHOIS API

QName AI (qname.ai) is a domain-research workspace whose WHOIS/RDAP capability is exposed programmatically through a small, approval-gated REST API and an agent-native CLI (@qname/cli). It offers authenticated single-domain and batch WHOIS/domain lookups plus a domain-traffic scope, consumable via the CLI, an installable Agent Skill, or direct REST calls.

QName AI WHOIS API is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include WHOIS, RDAP, Domain Search, batch-lookup, and CLI.

QName AI WHOIS API’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, CLI, authentication, changelog, and 20 more developer resources.

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26.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

WHOIS RDAP Domain Search batch-lookup CLI Agent Tooling Agent Skills llms-txt Developer Tools Domain Intelligence

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 26.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.9 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 9/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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

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Standards implemented 2

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Agent Skills

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

llms.txt

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

APIs 1

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

QName AI WHOIS REST API

Approval-gated REST API for WHOIS/RDAP lookups: GET /api/whois/{domain} (single), POST /api/whois/batch (batch), and GET /api/domain-traffic (traffic). Requires an admin-approve...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

QName AI WHOIS API MCP Server

MCP server requiring an API key; 3 tools listed. A candidate, not confirmed as published by the provider.

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Qname Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Qname Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Qname Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Qname Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Roadmap

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

name: QName AI WHOIS API
description: QName AI (qname.ai) is a domain-research workspace whose WHOIS/RDAP capability is exposed programmatically through
  a small, approval-gated REST API and an agent-native CLI (@qname/cli). It offers authenticated single-domain and batch WHOIS/domain
  lookups plus a domain-traffic scope, consumable via the CLI, an installable Agent Skill, or direct REST calls.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qname/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.21'
tags:
- WHOIS
- RDAP
- Domain Search
- batch-lookup
- CLI
- Agent Tooling
- Agent Skills
- llms-txt
- Developer Tools
- Domain Intelligence
tags_raw:
- whois
- rdap
- domain-research
- domain-search
- batch-lookup
- cli
- agent-tooling
- agent-skill
- llms-txt
- developer-tools
- domain-intelligence
apis:
- name: QName AI WHOIS REST API
  description: 'Approval-gated REST API for WHOIS/RDAP lookups: GET /api/whois/{domain} (single), POST /api/whois/batch (batch),
    and GET /api/domain-traffic (traffic). Requires an admin-approved API key (qname_ prefix) and enforces per-request and
    daily quotas.'
  humanURL: https://qname.ai/cli
  tags:
  - WHOIS
  - RDAP
  - Domain Search
  - batch-lookup
  - CLI
  - Agent Tooling
  - Agent Skills
  - llms-txt
  - Developer Tools
  - Domain Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - whois
  - rdap
  - domain-research
  - domain-search
  - batch-lookup
  - cli
  - agent-tooling
  - agent-skill
  - llms-txt
  - developer-tools
  - domain-intelligence
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://qname.ai/cli
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/QNameAI/qname-cli
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: https://qname.ai/llms.txt
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: https://github.com/QNameAI/qname-cli
maintainers:
- FN: QName AI
  email: hello@qname.ai
  url: https://qname.ai
generated:
  by: apis.io/add
  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 88
  at: '2026-09-13T14:20:00.634Z'
common:
- url: https://qname.ai/blog
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://qname.ai
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qname-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://qname.ai/cli
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/QNameAI
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://qname.ai/roadmap
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://qname.ai/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://qname.ai/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://qname.ai/contact
- type: Login
  url: https://qname.ai/auth/login
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/qname-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/qname-cli.md
- type: Packages
  url: packages/qname-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/qname-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/qname-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/qname-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/qname-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/qname-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/qname-mcp.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/qname-changelog.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://qname.ai/changelog
- type: Plans
  url: plans/qname-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/qname-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/qname-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/qname-conformance.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v3

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