# VDOnet

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vdonet/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

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

## 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).

## Tags

Company, Video, Streaming, Media, Defunct, Internet History

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