specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: AK Steel Holding
providerId: ak-steel-holding
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-30'
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  Live probes 2026-08-30 of every host named in apis.yml. aksteel.com,
  www.aksteel.com and ir.aksteel.com publish no DNS address record (curl exit 6,
  no HTTP status). The successor site www.clevelandcliffs.com answers HTTP 200
  but publishes no pricing, plans or rate-card page and returns HTTP 404 for
  /openapi.json, /api-docs and every /.well-known/ path.
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Automotive
  - Manufacturing
  - Materials
  - Steel
  - Metals
description: >-
  AK Steel Holding Corporation publishes no API plans and no API pricing, and
  cannot: it ceased to exist as an independent company on 2020-03-13 when
  Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. completed its acquisition, and its web hosts have since
  been withdrawn from DNS. This is an honest zero, not an unread page.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
notes: >-
  CORRECTION 2026-08-30 — this file previously carried a single invented
  "Historical / Cleveland-Cliffs Quote" entry that the file itself described as
  "a placeholder". No such plan is published by anyone; it has been removed and
  replaced with plan_count: 0. Steel tonnage is sold under bilateral contracts by
  the successor's sales organisation, which is a commercial motion, not an API plan.
evidence:
  - url: https://ir.aksteel.com/
    status: <no response>
    note: DNS NOERROR with no address record
  - url: https://www.aksteel.com/
    status: <no response>
    note: DNS NOERROR with no address record
  - url: https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/
    status: 200
    note: successor site; no pricing or plans page
sources:
  - https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/
  - https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/news/news-releases/detail/35/cleveland-cliffs-completes-acquisition-of-ak-steel
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com