WHOIS Lookup API
WHOIS Lookup API. Retrieve domain registration data including registrar, WHOIS server, creation date, expiration date, updated date, nameservers, domain status, and privacy/redaction signals. Useful for agents, developers, domain intelligence, expiry checks,…
by tools.ipintel.ai · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner · updated 2026-10-08
Mirrored from Coinbase's public x402 Bazaar. The description is the provider's own text and has not been reviewed here; the payment requirements are copied as published.
What it does
WHOIS Lookup API. Retrieve domain registration data including registrar, WHOIS server, creation date, expiration date, updated date, nameservers, domain status, and privacy/redaction signals. Useful for agents, developers, domain intelligence, expiry checks, registrar lookup, ownership investigation, and security workflows. Paid per call via x402.
Tags: whois · domain-lookup · domain-intelligence · registrar · developer-tools · bazaar
Call contract
- Method
- POST
- Input
- json
- Output
- json
- Last paid call
- 2026-10-08
{
"domain": "example.com"
}{
"creation_date": "1995-08-14T04:00:00Z",
"domain": "example.com",
"expiration_date": "2025-08-13T04:00:00Z",
"is_redacted": true,
"nameservers": [
"a.iana-servers.net",
"b.iana-servers.net"
],
"ok": true,
"raw_excerpt": "Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM\nRegistrar: RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority\n...",
"registrar": "RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority",
"service": "whois_lookup",
"statuses": [
"clientDeleteProhibited",
"clientTransferProhibited"
],
"timestamp": "2026-06-22T20:00:00+00:00",
"updated_date": "2024-08-14T07:01:34Z",
"whois_server": "whois.iana.org"
}Use with an agent
- Discover. Agents find this listing with
GET https://bazaar.saylorinnovations.com/discovery/search?query=…, the MCP toolsearch_resources, or/discovery/resources. - Inspect. Fetch
/resources/27557.jsonfor the price and payment options. - Pay. Call
GET https://tools.ipintel.ai/whois-lookup. The provider answers402with its payment requirements. An x402 client signs one of the options below and retries withPAYMENT-SIGNATURE. - Execute. The provider returns
200with the data. Agent Bazaar is not in the request path and never sees your payment.
For humans
You don't need an account or an API key; you need a wallet holding a small amount of USDC on Base, and an x402-capable client (see the examples below). Call the endpoint unpaid first to see exactly what it asks for.
Pricing & payment
- Price
- $0.005 / request
- Protocol
- x402 v2
- Auth
- No account or API key. Pay per request.
- Networks
- Base
- Demand
- 3 calls · 2 unique payers in 30d (public x402 Bazaar data)
x402 payment requirements
| Scheme | Network | Asset | Amount | Pay to | Timeout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exact | Base eip155:8453 | USDC | $0.005 | 0x0550779CFBc832657A8BB46BAC9f359A5ad038B8 | 300s |
accepts[] (raw JSON)
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x0550779CFBc832657A8BB46BAC9f359A5ad038B8",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "5000",
"amountUsd": 0.005,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Schemas
Output schema (JSON Schema)
{
"properties": {
"example": {
"additionalProperties": true,
"properties": {
"creation_date": {
"type": "string"
},
"domain": {
"type": "string"
},
"expiration_date": {
"type": "string"
},
"is_redacted": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"nameservers": {
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"ok": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"raw_excerpt": {
"type": "string"
},
"registrar": {
"type": "string"
},
"service": {
"type": "string"
},
"statuses": {
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"timestamp": {
"type": "string"
},
"updated_date": {
"type": "string"
},
"whois_server": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}Example shape — generated from the schema, not a captured live response
{
"example": {
"creation_date": "string",
"domain": "string",
"expiration_date": "string",
"is_redacted": true,
"nameservers": [
"string"
],
"ok": true,
"raw_excerpt": "string",
"registrar": "string",
"service": "string",
"statuses": [
"string"
],
"timestamp": "string",
"updated_date": "string",
"whois_server": "string"
},
"type": "string"
}Examples
curl -X POST 'https://tools.ipintel.ai/whois-lookup' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"domain":"example.com"}'
# -> 402 Payment Required; read PAYMENT-REQUIRED
# retry the identical request with PAYMENT-SIGNATUREconst res = await fetch("https://tools.ipintel.ai/whois-lookup", {
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
"content-type": "application/json"
},
"body": "{\"domain\":\"example.com\"}"
});
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}import httpx
import json
res = httpx.request("POST", "https://tools.ipintel.ai/whois-lookup", json=json.loads("{\"domain\":\"example.com\"}"))
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerDetails
- Provider
- tools.ipintel.ai
- Endpoint
- https://tools.ipintel.ai/whois-lookup
- Machine-readable
/resources/27557.json