Host.io

Host.io offers rich domain name data that can be used by businesses and developers to better understand the relationships between domains, discover new domains, and improve cyber security, business intelligence and competitor analysis. The API returns DNS information, scraped website content, outbound links, backlinks and hosting information for any domain.

Host.io's API can be used for a variety of purposes, including:

• Preventing Spam & Fraud: Block abusive users and detect spam by analyzing IP addresses and hosting information.
• Cybersecurity & Threat Intelligence: Understand attackers by seeing which domains are hosted on a particular IP address.
• Brand Protection: Monitor websites that link to your brand and ensure compliance.
• Market Research: Understand market growth by seeing which domains your competitors are hosting.

The API returns fast and accurate data, with a scalable architecture built on Google Cloud. Some of the features include:

• DNS Records: Pull A, AAAA, MX and NS records for a domain.
• Website Metadata: Pull scraped website content including title, description and outbound links.
• IP Information: Pull detailed information about IP addresses including city, region, country and ASN.
• Related Domains: Pull counts of related domains based on IP, ASN, backlinks and redirects.

Host.io offers several pricing tiers, each with increasing limits on API requests:

• Basic: $99/month for 10,000 requests with up to 50 results per page.
• Business: $499/month for 100,000 requests with up to 250 results per page.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing for 500,000+ requests with up to 1000 results per page.
• Free Plan: 1000 requests per month with up to 5 results per page.

Developers can integrate Host.io using authentication through HTTP Basic Auth, bearer tokens or query parameters. The API supports pagination, which can be used to handle large data sets by specifying page and limit parameters. Detailed documentation and a 100% free plan make it accessible to a broad audience.

Published on July 5, 2024