WhoAPI

WhoAPI (founded 2011, WhoAPI Inc.) is a domain-intelligence API company that exposes WHOIS records, real-time domain availability across hundreds of TLDs, domain age, domain reputation/score, SSL certificate inspection, email score, IP/domain blacklist checks, and website screenshots through a single key-authenticated REST endpoint (api.whoapi.com). Every request is an HTTP GET selecting a task with the `r` parameter and returning gzip-compressed JSON with a numeric `status` and human-readable `status_desc`. It serves cybersecurity teams, domain registrars, SEO agencies, and fraud-detection systems, with first-party and community SDKs for Ruby, Python, Go, and R.

WhoAPI publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Domain Intelligence API. Tagged areas include Company, Domains, WHOIS, Domain Availability, and SSL.

The WhoAPI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

WhoAPI’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, CLI, and 22 more developer resources.

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45.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

1 APIs

Company Domains WHOIS Domain Availability SSL Email Verification Blacklist Cybersecurity Domain Intelligence Screenshots Reputation

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scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

Composite quality — 45.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 5.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 16.1 / 20

Access Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Webhooks

Webhooks

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: whoapi
name: WhoAPI
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1
description: WhoAPI (founded 2011, WhoAPI Inc.) is a domain-intelligence API company that exposes WHOIS records, real-time
  domain availability across hundreds of TLDs, domain age, domain reputation/score, SSL certificate inspection, email score,
  IP/domain blacklist checks, and website screenshots through a single key-authenticated REST endpoint (api.whoapi.com). Every
  request is an HTTP GET selecting a task with the `r` parameter and returning gzip-compressed JSON with a numeric `status`
  and human-readable `status_desc`. It serves cybersecurity teams, domain registrars, SEO agencies, and fraud-detection systems,
  with first-party and community SDKs for Ruby, Python, Go, and R.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/whoapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://whoapi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/API-company-illustration.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-14'
tags:
- Company
- Domains
- WHOIS
- Domain Availability
- SSL
- Email Verification
- Blacklist
- Cybersecurity
- Domain Intelligence
- Screenshots
- Reputation
apis:
- aid: whoapi:whoapi-domain-intelligence-api
  name: WhoAPI Domain Intelligence API
  description: A single HTTP GET endpoint (api.whoapi.com) exposing nine domain-intelligence tasks selected by the `r` query
    parameter — whois, taken (availability), cert (SSL), domainscore and domainscore-check, emailscore and emailscore-check,
    blacklist, and screenshot. Authenticated with an `apikey` query parameter and optional IP whitelisting. Responses are
    gzip-compressed JSON carrying a numeric `status`; errors are returned in-band with HTTP 200. The two scoring tasks are
    asynchronous and accept a `webhook_url` callback parameter.
  humanURL: https://whoapi.com/api-documentation/
  baseURL: https://api.whoapi.com/
  tags:
  - Domain Intelligence
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/whoapi-domain-intelligence-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://whoapi.com/api-documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://whoapi.com/api-documentation/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/whoapi-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/whoapi-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/whoapi-error-codes.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/whoapi-lifecycle.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/whoapi-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/whoapi-conformance.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/whoapi-sandbox.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/whoapi-agentic-access.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/whoapi-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/whoapi-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/whoapi-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://whoapi.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://whoapi.com/api-documentation/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://whoapi.com/api-documentation/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://whoapi.com/api-documentation/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://whoapi.com/code-examples/
- type: Blog
  url: https://whoapi.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://whoapi.com/whois-api-pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://my.whoapi.com/user/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://my.whoapi.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://whoapi.com/privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.whoapi.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/whoapi
- type: Packages
  url: packages/whoapi-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/whoapi-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/whoapi-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/whoapi-authentication.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/whoapi-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/whoapi-conformance.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://whoapi.com/terms-of-use/
- type: Support
  url: https://whoapi.com/contact-us/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/whoapi-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/whoapi-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/whoapi-webhooks.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/whoapi-tool-crosswalk.yml

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APIs 1

WhoAPI Domain Intelligence API

Open Collections 2

API Collection

WhoAPI Domain Intelligence API

Pricing Plans 1

Whoapi Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Whoapi Rate Limits

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