# DomScan, free, GET /v1/whois: Domain WHOIS API

> Get WHOIS information for a domain including registrar, dates, and status.

DomScan's domain WHOIS API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 domains. DomScan's docs list all 9 fields on our checklist: Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses, DNSSEC, Abuse contact.
In [our domain WHOIS API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt), the best plan from DomScan scores 73.6 out of 100. DomScan ranks 2nd of 13 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 316 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.495 per 1,000 domains or less. [See the best free domain WHOIS API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
[Searchwire's $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/searchwire/10-pack/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 domains. Searchwire's domain WHOIS API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[Robtex](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/robtex/free/llms.txt), [DomScan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/6-monthly-starter-post-v1-whois-bulk/llms.txt) and [WhoisFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisfreaks/200-monthly-monthly-subscription-150000-api-credits-post-v2-0-bulkwhois-live/llms.txt) are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/free-get-v1-whois
- [Domain WHOIS API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://domscan.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://domscan.net/v1/whois`
- API key: with the plan, on https://domscan.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://domscan.net/docs/products/whois?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing#getWhois
- Sold by: DomScan (https://domscan.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Registrant: ✓
- Registrar: ✓
- Created on: ✓
- Updated on: ✓
- Expires on: ✓
- Name servers: ✓
- Statuses: ✓
- DNSSEC: ✓
- Abuse contact: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 183 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get WHOIS information for a domain including registrar, dates, and status.

## Data

- Keep data: Cache results locally (respecting our cache headers)
- Use data: You may: Use the API for legitimate domain research and monitoring, Integrate our API into your applications, Cache results locally (respecting our cache headers), Build commercial products using our API. You may not: Attempt to circumvent rate limits or authentication, Resell raw API access without adding value, Use the service for illegal activities, Scrape the website instead of using the API, Attack or attempt to compromise our infrastructure, Use the service for spamming or phishing, Abuse RDAP servers through our service

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: about 333 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of each UTC calendar month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.09 s

## The call

- You send: domain
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/whois

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 45 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, registered, available, availability reason, registrar, registrar URL, registrar IANA ID, created date, updated date, expiry date, domain age, newly registered, days until expiry, transfer lock, nameservers, domain status, DNSSEC, registrant contact, admin contact, technical contact, billing contact, privacy protected, privacy service, privacy patterns, raw RDAP link, raw WHOIS, abuse contact, registry domain ID, registrar WHOIS server, traditional contacts, nameserver IPs, checked at, query time, summary, data sources, authoritative source, relay WHOIS used, raw WHOIS available, parse error count, registration age, expires within 30 days, privacy protected summary, contact roles available, abuse contact available, nameserver count

## DomScan's plans (8)

- [DomScan, free, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/free-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $10 pack, 10,000 credits, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/10-pack-10000-credits-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $30 pack, 50,000 credits, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/30-pack-50000-credits-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $85 pack, 250,000 credits, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/85-pack-250000-credits-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $1.02 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $269 pack, 1,000,000 credits, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/269-pack-1000000-credits-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $0.807 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $6 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/6-monthly-starter-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $0.72 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $19 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/19-monthly-pro-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $0.57 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomScan, $49 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/49-monthly-scale-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $0.294 per 1,000, 100% complete

## DomScan's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/whois/bulk`: [DomScan, free, POST /v1/whois/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/free-post-v1-whois-bulk/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/whois`: [DomScan, free, GET /v2/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/free-get-v2-whois/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/whois`: [DomScan, free, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/free-get-v1-whois/llms.txt)

## DomScan's APIs (6)

- [DomScan: company enrichment API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/domscan/free/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscan/free/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: email verification API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/email/verify/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/domscan/free-post-v1-email-verify-bulk/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: email verification API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/email/verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/domscan/free-get-v1-email-verify/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: phone validation API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/phone/validate/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/domscan/free-post-v1-phone-validate-bulk/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: phone validation API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/phone/validate](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/domscan/free-post-v1-phone-validate/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: tech stack API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/tech/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/domscan/free-post-v1-tech-bulk/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: tech stack API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/tech](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/domscan/free-get-v1-tech/llms.txt)
- [DomScan: domain WHOIS API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/free-get-v1-whois/llms.txt)

## DomScan: domain WHOIS API alternatives

- [WhoisJSON, $100 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisjson/100-yearly/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 89% complete, 3 hours
- [DomainIndex, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domainindex/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 44% complete
- [ALAPI, CNY 10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/alapi/cny-10-pack/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RDAPAPI, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/rdapapi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, 48 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://domscan.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://domscan.net/docs/credits-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://domscan.net/docs/products/whois?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://domscan.net/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://domscan.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://domscan.net/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://domscan.net/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing