UUNET Technologies

UUNET Technologies was one of the first commercial Internet service providers, founded in 1987 by Rick Adams in Virginia to commercialize Usenet and email, launching the AlterNet IP backbone in 1990. Backed by Accel Partners, Menlo Ventures, and NEA, it IPO'd on NASDAQ in 1995, was acquired by MFS Communications for $2B in 1996, which WorldCom bought that same year; after the MCI merger and Verizon's 2006 acquisition the UUNET brand was retired into Verizon Business. The brand is defunct today - its legacy domains (uu.net, uunet.com) remain Verizon-operated DNS zones whose web hosts only redirect to verizon.com/business, and it publishes no APIs or developer surface.

UUNET Technologies is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Internet Service Provider, Networking, Telecommunications, and Internet Backbone.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyInternet Service ProviderNetworkingTelecommunicationsInternet BackboneDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

Source (apis.yml)

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  Ventures, and NEA, it IPO'd on NASDAQ in 1995, was acquired by MFS Communications for $2B in 1996, which WorldCom bought
  that same year; after the MCI merger and Verizon's 2006 acquisition the UUNET brand was retired into Verizon Business. The
  brand is defunct today - its legacy domains (uu.net, uunet.com) remain Verizon-operated DNS zones whose web hosts only redirect
  to verizon.com/business, and it publishes no APIs or developer surface.
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UUNET Technologies

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Security Posture 1

Uunet Technologies Domain Security

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Access & Security 1

Source (apis.yml)