10 Use Cases for the 101domain API

To get your creative juices flowing on what you can build with 101domain, here are 10 use cases for clients utilizing the standard REST API.

Automated Bulk Domain Registration & Search

Marketing agencies or domain investors can programmatically submit a list of up to 50 domains at once to check availability and pricing using the bulk-search endpoint (available now).
If available, they will be able to automate the purchasing process using the upcoming registration endpoint (coming soon).

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) DNS Management

IT and DevOps teams can integrate their internal CI/CD pipelines with the API to automatically provision or update DNS records (A, CNAME, TXT, etc.) during software deployments or server migrations using the upcoming dns/records endpoints (coming soon).

Custom Portfolio Dashboards

Enterprise clients can synchronize their domain portfolio data with their internal IT asset management systems (like ServiceNow) by regularly polling the domains endpoint (available now), ensuring their internal dashboards accurately reflect expiration dates, nameservers, statuses, and more.

ERP & Accounting Integration

Accounting and finance departments can automate their financial tracking by pulling invoice details, account balances, and payment transaction histories directly into their internal financial software (like NetSuite, SAP or QuickBooks) using the balance endpoint (available now) and invoices and transactions endpoints (coming soon).

Granular Security and Access Control

Administrators can create specific, restricted API keys with granular scopes (e.g., granting a key with only dns:write and domains:read permissions). This ensures an external webmaster can manage DNS settings without having access to billing information or the ability to transfer domains out.

Dynamic Web Forwarding

Businesses running fast-paced marketing campaigns can programmatically create, modify, or delete 301 permanent redirects or cloaked web forwarding for promotional URLs using the forwarding endpoints (available now).

Automated Contact Updates at Scale

When a company rebrands or a key IT manager leaves, administrators will be able to create new contact handles and programmatically apply them to thousands of domains using the POST contacts and PATCH domains endpoints (coming soon).

Partner Storefront Integration

Clients building their own domain search tools or storefronts can dynamically pull the registration pricing, character limits, and specific registration requirements for multiple domain extensions at once using the bulk-lookup endpoint (available now).

Automated Auth Code Retrieval

Companies migrating massive portfolios can script the retrieval of authorization (EPP) codes for outbound domain transfers utilizing the token (coming soon) endpoint.

Security Auditing and Compliance

Corporate security teams can continuously poll the domains (available now) endpoint to audit their portfolio, ensuring that critical domains have auto-renew turned on, privacy features enabled, and are pointing to the correct, authorized nameservers.