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.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles UUNET Technologies the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — UUNET Technologies scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile UUNET Technologies
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UUNET Technologies. 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.
Security Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for UUNET Technologies — 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.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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