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Namechan Domain WHOIS API pricing

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33% complete: 3 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsWe haven't run Namechan through our domain WHOIS API benchmark yet.We rank 587 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.54 or less per 1,000 domains. This plan and 37 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 domains of the 587 plans. 133 domain WHOIS API plans on our price sheet are free. WhoisRequest's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 96.9 out of 100.WhoisRequest, thenetworkery and FluentEDI are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Namechan plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free API key one of Namechan's 2 plans
Call: GET /whois Namechan's only call
API: Domain WHOIS API Namechan's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 hour old. You get WHOIS records from Namechan's database.
  • 3 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrar, Name servers, Statuses.
  • Nothing to pay. Namechan limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /whois. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Google account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Namechan: domain WHOIS API alternatives

Namechan alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 domains. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

This planNamechan, free API keyWhoisRequest, free, GET /api/v1/lookup/rdap/{domain name}thenetworkery, freeFluentEDI, freeEnterno, free, ScoutLookproof, free
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%11%100%67%89%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0₽0$0
Enough fornot publishednot publishednot publishedno limit200 calls a day250 calls a month
Freshness1 hourlivelivelivelive5 minutes
Who can get itanyone with a Google accountanyone, no account or API keyanyone, to check systems they own, run or are authorised to testanyoneanyone with an accountanyone with an email address: the key is emailed to the address in the request form

Sources

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

  1. namechan.com/
  2. namechan.com/api-keys
  3. namechan.com/domain-availability-mcp
  4. namechan.com/domain-availability-skill
  5. namechan.com/terms
  6. raw.githubusercontent.com/plusye/domain-availability-mcp/main/README.md
  7. raw.githubusercontent.com/plusye/domain-availability-skill/main/skills/domain-availability/SKILL.md
  8. raw.githubusercontent.com/plusye/domain-availability-skill/main/skills/domain-availability/scripts/domains.mjs

Product details

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

  • Registrant, not in the answer
  • Registrar
  • Created on, not in the answer
  • Updated on, not in the answer
  • Expires on, not in the answer
  • Name servers
  • Statuses
  • DNSSEC, not in the answer
  • Abuse contact, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: check_domains · check_name
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA remote MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, Codex and other agents check which domain names are free to register, with live registry lookups and prices.
Data
Freshness1 hour
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe Namechan API, MCP server and agent skill come with free allowances for personal use, including use through an AI assistant acting for you. Without our written permission, do not use their results in a product or service offered to others, resell them, collect results in bulk, or get around their limits, including by rotating IP addresses or using several accounts.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddomain
MethodGET
Path/whois
About the plan
PlanFree API key
Who can get itanyone with a Google account
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

registered at, expires at, domain age, registrar, statuses, nameservers

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