99.99%
Uptime
Production-ready endpoints are designed for 99.99% uptime and documented status handling.
Category
OSINT
Endpoints
1
Key Features
8
Frequently Asked Questions
5
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What this API helps you ship
Use this page as a production brief: endpoints, examples, response shape, and the workflow pieces needed to plug DomScan into your own product.
Embed domain checks, DNS intelligence, risk signals, or enrichment into onboarding, search, and internal tools.
Replace repeated manual lookups with scheduled jobs, alerting, and reproducible investigation steps.
Use predictable fields, documented status codes, and credit costs instead of scraping provider pages.
Feed agents, dashboards, SOAR playbooks, and CRMs through OpenAPI, SDK, Postman, or MCP.
Integration workflow
A simple path from first request to repeatable production usage.
Authenticate once
Send your API key with the documented header and keep requests consistent across services.
Query with examples
Start from the curl and HTTP samples, then map the parameters into your application code.
Operate and monitor
Use status codes, credit costs, and response fields to build retries, logs, and alerts.
Developer kit
Jump from this page into machine-readable docs, request collections, SDKs, or agent tooling.
OpenAPI schema
Generate clients or inspect every request and response shape.
Postman collectionImport ready-made requests for manual testing and team handoff.
SDKs and CLIUse maintained packages and command-line workflows instead of writing boilerplate.
MCP integrationExpose domain intelligence to AI agents and internal assistant workflows.
Parameters and response map
Scan the inputs, output fields, and status codes before wiring the endpoint into your client.
Parameter
domain
Example Response
domaintldregisteredexpiresupdatedage_daysexpires_in_daysphasestatus_flagsstatusevents
HTTP Status Codes
200400402429500502503504
Endpoints
GET
/v1/lifecycle
domain
Trust signals before you integrate
Transparent docs, authenticated requests, and visible reliability details make it easier to evaluate DomScan before you ship.
Uptime
API artifacts
OpenAPI, Swagger, Postman, CLI, SDK, and MCP links are one click away.
API keys
Protected access
Authenticated endpoints use API keys with clear credit costs before you call them.
Free allowance
Sign Up for Free
Start with 10,000 monthly credits and upgrade only when usage grows.
Active
Example Request
Start from the curl and HTTP samples, then map the parameters into your application code.
Key Features
Registration Dates
Get exact registration date from RDAP registry data.
Expiration Tracking
Know exactly when domains expire and days remaining.
Domain Age
Calculate domain age in days for SEO and valuation.
Lifecycle Phase
Available, active, expiring, deleting, or reserved status.
Fastly-Style Flags
Industry-standard status flags like Fastly Domain Research API.
Full Event History
All RDAP events: registration, updates, transfers.
Portfolio Monitoring
Track expiration across your domain portfolio.
Drop Catching
Monitor expiring domains for registration opportunities.
Example Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: $DOMSCAN_API_KEY" "https://domscan.net/v1/lifecycle?domain=bbc.co.uk"Example Response
{
"domain": "bbc.co.uk",
"tld": "co.uk",
"registered": "1997-08-01T00:00:00Z",
"expires": "2026-08-01T00:00:00Z",
"updated": "2024-08-01T00:00:00Z",
"age_days": 10515,
"expires_in_days": 474,
"phase": "active",
"status_flags": ["clientTransferProhibited", "serverTransferProhibited"],
"status": "clientTransferProhibited serverTransferProhibited",
"events": [
{ "action": "registration", "date": "1997-08-01T00:00:00Z" },
{ "action": "expiration", "date": "2026-08-01T00:00:00Z" },
{ "action": "last changed", "date": "2024-08-01T00:00:00Z" }
]
}Frequently Asked Questions
What lifecycle phases are supported?
Domains can be in these phases: available (not registered), active (registered and current), expiring (in redemption grace period), deleting (pending delete), or reserved (blocked by registry).
What are status flags?
Status flags are based on Fastly's Domain Research API taxonomy. Common flags include: inactive (available), active (registered), undelegated (no DNS), expiring, deleting, premium, reserved, and claimed.
How accurate are the dates?
Dates come directly from RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol), the authoritative source. Some registries may not expose all dates.
Can I monitor multiple domains?
Yes! Use our Watchlist API to monitor domain portfolios and get alerts for expiring domains.
What is domain age used for?
Domain age is a factor in SEO rankings, domain valuation, and trust assessment. Older domains are generally considered more trustworthy.
Related Tools & Resources
HTTP Status Codes
We document the HTTP status codes you should handle so you can distinguish successful responses, auth issues, credits, rate limits, missing data, and upstream failures.
OK
200
Request successful
Bad Request
400
Invalid parameters
Payment Required
402
Not enough credits to run this request.
Too Many Requests
429
Rate limit exceeded
Server Error
500
Internal error
Bad Gateway
502
Upstream RDAP error
Service Unavailable
503
Upstream service unavailable or temporarily rate limited.
Gateway Timeout
504
Upstream lookup timed out.
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