VDOnet

VDOnet Corp was a mid-1990s streaming-media pioneer whose VDOLive server and player delivered some of the earliest video streamed over the web, alongside the VDOPhone video-telephony product. Backed by Battery Ventures, with Microsoft taking a minority stake in 1996, the company wound down in the late 1990s and its product line was sold off (Citrix negotiated a purchase of the product line for roughly $8 million in 1998). The company is defunct - its former vdo.net domain now resolves to a parked page listed for sale - and no API, developer portal, or other machine-readable surface exists to harvest.

VDOnet is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Video, Streaming, Media, and Defunct.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: vdonet
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vdonet.png
name: VDOnet
description: VDOnet Corp was a mid-1990s streaming-media pioneer whose VDOLive server and player delivered some of the earliest
  video streamed over the web, alongside the VDOPhone video-telephony product. Backed by Battery Ventures, with Microsoft
  taking a minority stake in 1996, the company wound down in the late 1990s and its product line was sold off (Citrix negotiated
  a purchase of the product line for roughly $8 million in 1998). The company is defunct - its former vdo.net domain now resolves
  to a parked page listed for sale - and no API, developer portal, or other machine-readable surface exists to harvest.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vdonet/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
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Video
- Streaming
- Media
- Defunct
- Internet History
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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