Making requests

GET https://whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/api/v1?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&domainName=google.com&mode=purchase

POST https://whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/api/v1

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POST request body sample

{
    "apiKey": "API_KEY",
    "domainName" : "google.com",
    "mode": "purchase"
}

Headers

X-Authentication-Token

You can use this header or apiKey parameter for API calls.

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Input parameters

apiKey	Required. Get your personal API KEY on My products page.
domainName	Required. The domain for which historic WHOIS data is requested.
mode	Optional. preview – return only the number of domains. No credits deducted. purchase – return the actual list of domains (limited to 10,000). 1 request costs 50 DRS credits. Acceptable values: preview \| purchase Default: preview
outputFormat	Optional. Response output format. Acceptable values: JSON \| XML Default: JSON
sinceDate	Optional. If present, search through activities discovered since the given date. Sometimes there is a latency between the actual added/renewal/expired date and the date when our system detected this change. We recommend using this field in your monitoring tools for filtering daily changes. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.
createdDateFrom	Optional. If present, search through domains created after the given date. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.
createdDateTo	Optional. If present, search through domains created before the given date. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.
updatedDateFrom	Optional. If present, search through domains updated after the given date. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.
updatedDateTo	Optional. If present, search through domains updated before the given date. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.
expiredDateFrom	Optional. If present, search through domains expired after the given date. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.
expiredDateTo	Optional. If present, search through domains expired before the given date. Acceptable values: date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.

Free access

After Sign Up you automatically get a free subscription plan limited to 100 DRS credits.

Usage limits and requests throttling

The maximum number of requests per second is 30. In case that the limit is breached, your subsequent requests will be rejected until the next second.