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DomainTools

DomainTools is a domain and DNS intelligence company whose APIs power threat investigation, hunting, and monitoring for security teams. Its product surface spans Iris Investigate (pivot-based domain investigation), Iris Enrich (bulk domain enrichment), and Iris Detect (brand-infringement monitoring); the Farsight DNSDB passive DNS history API (300+ billion records); Lookups & Monitors (WHOIS, RDAP, hosting history, reverse IP/WHOIS, reputation, risk score, and change monitors); Threat Feeds (predictive risk and discovery feeds with RPZ integration); and Farsight SIE real-time DNS event streaming. DomainTools publishes OpenAPI specifications, an official Python SDK with a bundled CLI, and a remotely hosted MCP server for AI agents. A Battery Ventures portfolio company, enriched into the API Evangelist network.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles DomainTools the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — DomainTools scores 48.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 48.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.5 / 25
Access Clarity 6.8 / 20
Discoverability 8.2 / 10
DomainTools Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile DomainTools

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for DomainTools. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 12

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

DomainTools Flex search API

The Flex search API from DomainTools — 2 operation(s) for flex search.

DomainTools Information API

Access the latest information about your account, including service limits.

DomainTools Iris Detect API

Iris Detect is an Internet infrastructure detection, monitoring, and enforcement tool. It rapidly discovers malicious domains that are engaged in brand impersonation, risk-score...

DomainTools Iris Enrich API

Designed to support high query volumes with batch processing and fast response times, the Iris Enrich API provides actionable insights-at-scale with enterprise-scale ingestion o...

DomainTools Iris Investigate API

The Iris Investigate API is ideally suited for investigate and orchestrate use cases at human scale. Identify threats, map adversary infrastructure, and streamline investigations.

DomainTools Lookups API

Endpoints for retrieving detailed information about domains and IPs, and for finding connections between domains and infrastructure.

DomainTools Monitors API

Endpoints for monitoring new domain registrations, changes to IP ranges, and other key infrastructure events based on specific terms.

DomainTools Ping API

The Ping API from DomainTools — 1 operation(s) for ping.

DomainTools Rate Limit API

The Rate Limit API from DomainTools — 1 operation(s) for rate limit.

DomainTools rdata Lookups API

The rdata Lookups API from DomainTools — 4 operation(s) for rdata lookups.

DomainTools rrset Lookups API

The rrset Lookups API from DomainTools — 6 operation(s) for rrset lookups.

DomainTools Siebatchd API

The Siebatchd API from DomainTools — 4 operation(s) for siebatchd.

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Open Collections 13

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Domaintools Authentication

apiKey/http · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Domaintools Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Domaintools Agentic Access

53 operations · 11 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

53 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for DomainTools — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of DomainTools, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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