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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1.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyInternet Service ProviderNetworkingTelecommunicationsInternet BackboneDefunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 1.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 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
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Telecommunications 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.
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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Security Posture 1

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

Uunet Technologies Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: UUNET Technologies
description: 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.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Company
- Internet Service Provider
- Networking
- Telecommunications
- Internet Backbone
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- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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