# Nightshift Labs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /v1/domain/whois: Domain WHOIS API

> Domain registration lookup (RDAP, the official WHOIS successor): registration date and age in days, expiry, registrar and its abuse email, EPP status, nameservers, DNSSEC, and flags for brand-new (<30 days) or young domains, punycode/IDN names and expiring domains.

Nightshift Labs's x402 pay per call plan for the domain WHOIS API costs $3.00 per 1,000 domains. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields. Nightshift Labs's docs list 8: Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses, DNSSEC, Abuse contact.
We haven't run Nightshift Labs through [our domain WHOIS API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt) yet.
We rank 495 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.575 or less per 1,000 domains. This plan costs less per 1,000 domains than 28% of the 495 plans.
[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. [C99.nl's $25 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/c99-nl/25-yearly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 domains a month: $2.08.
[WhoisJSON](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisjson/120-monthly/llms.txt), [Enterno](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/enterno/free-open-api/llms.txt) and [IPAddress.to](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/ipaddress-to/free/llms.txt) are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-whois
- [Domain WHOIS API in 2026: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev/v1/domain/whois`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1domain~1whois
- Sold by: Nightshift Labs (https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 89%
- Registrar: ✓
- Created on: ✓
- Updated on: ✓
- Expires on: ✓
- Name servers: ✓
- Statuses: ✓
- DNSSEC: ✓
- Abuse contact: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Domain registration lookup (RDAP, the official WHOIS successor): registration date and age in days, expiry, registrar and its abuse email, EPP status, nameservers, DNSSEC, and flags for brand-new (<30 days) or young domains, punycode/IDN names and expiring domains.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, registrable domain, RDAP available, created date, age in days, expiry date, days until expiry, updated date, registrar, registrar IANA ID, registrar abuse email, status, name servers, DNSSEC, flags

## Nightshift Labs's plans (1)

- [Nightshift Labs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /v1/domain/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-whois/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 89% complete

## Nightshift Labs's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/domain/whois`: [Nightshift Labs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /v1/domain/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-whois/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/domain/overview`: [Nightshift Labs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /v1/domain/overview](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-overview/llms.txt)

## Nightshift Labs's APIs (2)

- [Nightshift Labs: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Nightshift Labs: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/domain/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-whois/llms.txt)

## Nightshift Labs: domain WHOIS API alternatives

- [DomScan, $10 pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/whois/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/10-pack-10000-credits-post-v1-whois-bulk/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WhoisFreaks, $150 pack, 50,000 API Credits, POST /v2.0/bulkwhois/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisfreaks/150-pack-50000-api-credits-post-v2-0-bulkwhois-live/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ipv4.fr, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/ipv4-fr/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 44% complete
- [NetIntel, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [NoJunk, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nojunk/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://github.com/nightshift-labs-ai/nightshift-x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://nightshift-x402.nightshift-labs.workers.dev/samples?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing