# Padawan Consulting, pay as you go: Domain WHOIS API

> WHOIS / RDAP domain lookup: registrar, registration and expiry dates, domain age, status, nameservers and DNSSEC from the registry [...]

Padawan Consulting's x402 pay per call plan for the domain WHOIS API costs $5.00 per 1,000 domains. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields. Padawan Consulting's docs list 4: Registrar, Name servers, Statuses, DNSSEC.
We haven't run Padawan Consulting 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 18% 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/padawan-consulting/pay-as-you-go
- [Domain WHOIS API in 2026: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com/v1/domain-intel`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1domain-intel
- Sold by: Padawan Consulting (https://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 44%
- Registrar: ✓
- Name servers: ✓
- Statuses: ✓
- DNSSEC: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: WHOIS / RDAP domain lookup: registrar, registration and expiry dates, domain age, status, nameservers and DNSSEC from the registry [...]

## 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-intel

## 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 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, registrar, created, expires, age in days, statuses, nameservers, DNSSEC signed, A records, email security grade, spoofing, DMARC policy, flags

## Padawan Consulting's plans (1)

- [Padawan Consulting, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/padawan-consulting/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 44% complete

## Padawan Consulting's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/domain-intel`: [Padawan Consulting, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/padawan-consulting/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Padawan Consulting's APIs (2)

- [Padawan Consulting: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/padawan-consulting/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Padawan Consulting: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/mobile-network](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/padawan-consulting/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-mobile-network/llms.txt)
- [Padawan Consulting: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/normalize-phone](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/padawan-consulting/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-normalize-phone/llms.txt)

## Padawan Consulting: domain WHOIS API alternatives

- [How.is, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/how-is/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, live
- [fetcher.cloud, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/fetcher-cloud/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [WebLens, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/weblens/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 56% complete
- [Agent Data Workers, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, 1 hour

## 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://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://agentstall.padawanconsulting.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing