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DomainTools pricing: domain WHOIS API, GET /{domain}/whois/

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78% complete: 7 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
Contact us, Enterprise, GET /{domain}/whois/We haven't run DomainTools through our domain WHOIS API benchmark yet.DomainTools gives this plan's price on request. We rank 316 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.495 per 1,000 domains or less.Searchwire's $10 pack is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 domains. Searchwire's domain WHOIS API costs nothing beyond the plan price.Robtex, DomScan and WhoisFreaks are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest DomainTools plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Enterprise DomainTools's only plan
Call: GET /{domain}/whois/ one of DomainTools's 5 calls
API: Domain WHOIS API DomainTools's only API

About this item

  • Stored. You get WHOIS records from DomainTools's database. DomainTools doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 7 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses.
  • No public price. You ask DomainTools for one.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /{domain}/whois/. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

DomainTools: domain WHOIS API alternatives

DomainTools alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price

We list other providers' plans with no public price. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

This planDomainTools, contact us, Enterprise, GET /{domain}/whois/Suprsonic, contact usWhoAPI, contact us, Enterprise, GET /, Live Whois APIDeepinfo, contact usdomainIQ, contact us, Enterprise, GET /api, Retrieving simple WHOIS records
Completeness78%78%78%78%78%
Billingcontactcontactcontactcontactcontact
Freshnessstoredunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itcustomers with a signed Service Order under its Enterprise Subscription Agreement, for internal business use in connection with cybersecurity, fraud prevention, network and information security, threat detection and the investigation of illegal actsanyoneanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter binding contractsanyonecompanies and government

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. docs.domaintools.com/api/iris/rate-limits
  2. docs.domaintools.com/api/lookups/whois-lookup
  3. domaintools.com/policies/enterprise-subscription-agreement
  4. domaintools.com/products/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Registrant
  • Registrar
  • Created on
  • Updated on
  • Expires on
  • Name servers
  • Statuses
  • DNSSEC, not in the answer
  • Abuse contact, not in the answer
Price
Billingcontact
In their words
Their pitchThe WHOIS Lookup API provides the ownership record for a domain name or IP address with basic registration details.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep data30 days: "Data accessed via APIs and stored for more than 30 days shall be treated as On-Site Customer Managed Data", which "Customer shall promptly delete [...] at the end of the applicable Subscription Term"
Use data"Customer agrees to use the Services and any Services Data (i) solely for Customer’s internal business purposes (except to the extent product integration is expressly authorized in a Service Order), (ii) solely in connection with cybersecurity, fraud prevention, network and information security, threat detection, prevention, and remediation, law, regulatory, and rights enforcement, and the investigation of illegal acts or threats to safety or security, and (iii) solely in accordance with this Agreement and the applicable Service Order" [...] "Customer may not use the Services or any Services Data: (i) in a way prohibited by law, regulation, governmental order, or decree, (ii) to violate the rights of others, (iii) to disparage or harm the reputation of any third-party, (iv) to try to gain unauthorized access to or disrupt any service, device, data, account or network, (v) to generate, distribute, publish, or facilitate spam, malware, malicious code, or items of a destructive or deceptive nature, or (vi) to harm, disable, interfere with, or circumvent any aspect of the Services or impair anyone else’s use of the Services. Customer may not distribute, sublicense, resell, transfer, or make available the Services, Services Data, or any portion thereof, to or for third parties, in each case unless and except as expressly authorized in a Service Order." [...] "Customer may not access or use the Services or Services Data for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes, including, without limitation, for the purpose of designing and/or developing any competitive service or data set. Without limiting the foregoing, Customer may not use Services Data to train machine learning algorithms or input the Services Data into any generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications." [...] "Customer shall not utilize the Services to create a persistent database or other repository containing Services Data."
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddomain
MethodGET
Path/{domain}/whois/
About the plan
PlanEnterprise
Who can get itcustomers with a signed Service Order under its Enterprise Subscription Agreement, for internal business use in connection with cybersecurity, fraud prevention, network and information security, threat detection and the investigation of illegal acts
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

registrant name, registrar name, creation date, updated date, expiration date, status, nameservers, raw WHOIS data, WHOIS record date, record source

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