{ "_meta": { "description": "Per-registrar agent profile: a single machine-readable record combining this registrar's identity, editorial category scores, Agent Readiness Index sub-scores, API-access facts, transfer/switch mechanics, and pricing-verification status. It composes data already published on this site and introduces no new facts. Sections not yet covered by a source dataset are null with a coverage note rather than guessed. Every section names the source it is composed from.", "site": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com", "profile_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/dynadot/", "methodology_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/methodology/", "generated_for": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/registrars/dynadot.json", "last_updated": "2026-09-29", "disclosure": "Best-Domain-Registrars.com is operated within Just (Just Done LLC). Every registrar is scored by the same published methodology on the same evidence." }, "registrar": { "id": "dynadot", "name": "Dynadot", "slug": "dynadot", "website": "https://www.dynadot.com", "headquarters": "San Mateo, California, United States", "founded": 2002, "icann_accredited": true, "wikipedia_url": null, "best_for": [ "Domain investors", "Aftermarket tools", "Bulk operations" ], "not_ideal_for": [ "Beginners", "Polished UX" ], "whois_privacy": "Free, included", "two_factor_authentication": "TOTP and SMS", "api_available": true, "bulk_tools": true, "last_checked": "2026-09-28", "last_reviewed": "2026-04-15", "source": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/registrars.json" }, "editorial_scores": { "scale": "0–10, higher is better; overall is weighted per /methodology/", "overall": 8.1, "why_overall": "Powerful tools for portfolio holders and investors with competitive pricing; less polished for first-time buyers.", "categories": { "pricing": 8.5, "renewal": 8.5, "pricing_transparency": 8.5, "whois_privacy": 8.5, "dns": 7.5, "security": 8, "support": 7.5, "transfer": 8.5, "tld_coverage": 8.5, "developer": 9, "beginner_ux": 6.5 }, "last_updated": "2026-05-12", "source": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/registrar-scores.json" }, "agent_readiness": { "covered": true, "scale": "Sub-scores 0-10; overall 0-100 (weighted).", "methodology_version": "0.1", "basis": "v0.1 is a public-signal assessment. Sub-scores are derived from each registrar's published API documentation, pricing pages, and security/privacy policies as cited per registrar. They are an interpretation of those facts, not a fabricated rating, and they are NOT yet the result of an end-to-end live agent test (search -> register -> configure DNS). Independent live testing is a planned v0.2 upgrade. Any criterion we could not verify from a public source is recorded as null (unknown), not guessed.", "rank": 6, "overall": 56.7, "overall_recomputed": 56.7, "summary": "A capable API (legacy + REST) with a sandbox and strong bulk tooling for portfolio holders, but a hard concurrency constraint, only one API request at a time per account, limits agent throughput. Delegation and safety are standard; no official agent interface.", "best_for": [ "Bulk and portfolio automation", "Sandbox testing", "Competitive pricing" ], "not_ideal_for": [ "High-concurrency agents", "Least-privilege delegation", "Polished non-technical UX" ], "criteria": [ { "id": "api_coverage", "name": "API coverage", "weight": 18, "score": 7.5, "note": "Legacy + RESTful API covering domains, DNS, and bulk operations (up to 100 domains/request)." }, { "id": "auth_delegation", "name": "Authentication & delegation", "weight": 14, "score": 4, "note": "API key + secret (x-signature for REST); no OAuth, no scoped tokens." }, { "id": "agent_safety", "name": "Agent safety", "weight": 12, "score": 3, "note": "2FA; no audit-log API, approval flow, spend limit, or rollback. One-request-at-a-time limit constrains automation." }, { "id": "developer_experience", "name": "Developer experience", "weight": 12, "score": 6, "note": "Public docs and a sandbox (api-sandbox.dynadot.com); rate limits vary by account tier and only one concurrent request is allowed." }, { "id": "agent_interface", "name": "Agent-interface readiness", "weight": 12, "score": 2.5, "note": "No official MCP or capability manifest; no machine-readable pricing." }, { "id": "pricing_transparency", "name": "Pricing transparency", "weight": 10, "score": 8, "note": "Public, competitive pricing with limited upsell." }, { "id": "dns_infrastructure", "name": "DNS & infrastructure", "weight": 8, "score": 6.5, "note": "Functional DNS with DNSSEC; not anycast-class performance." }, { "id": "privacy_compliance", "name": "Privacy & compliance", "weight": 6, "score": 8, "note": "Free WHOIS privacy; TOTP/SMS 2FA." }, { "id": "support_quality", "name": "Support quality", "weight": 4, "score": 6.5, "note": "Email and business-hours chat." }, { "id": "trust_signals", "name": "Trust signals", "weight": 4, "score": 8, "note": "ICANN accredited, operating since 2002." } ], "last_checked": "2026-06-21", "sources": [ "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api", "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api-commands", "https://www.dynadot.com/help/question/api-sandbox" ], "report_card_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/agent-readiness-index/dynadot/", "source": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/agent-readiness.json" }, "api_access": { "covered": true, "tier": "ungated", "tier_label": "Ungated", "api_available": true, "auth_model": "API key", "scoped_tokens": false, "oauth": false, "webhooks": false, "sandbox": "https://api-sandbox.dynadot.com", "openapi": null, "rate_limit": "One concurrent request per account", "gating": null, "live_tested": false, "docs_url": "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api", "note": "Open to any account and offers a sandbox, but the throughput is the tightest in the set: a single concurrent request per account, so high-volume automation has to serialise calls.", "sources": [ "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api" ], "dataset": { "publisher": "Open Domain Data", "id": "registrar_api_capabilities", "version": "2026.06", "last_checked": "2026-06-28", "url": "https://opendomaindata.org/datasets/registrar-api-capabilities" }, "page_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/domain-registrar-api-access/" }, "transfer": { "covered": true, "transfer_in": { "adds_year": true, "privacy": "Free WHOIS privacy, included", "cost": "A transfer renews the domain for one year at Dynadot's price. Dynadot's pricing is verified on this site: see its profile and the cheapest-renewals tracker.", "eligibility": [ "Registered at least 60 days ago and not transferred in the last 60 days (ICANN rule)", "Unlock the domain and have its authorization (auth/EPP) code ready" ], "quirk": null, "doc": "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/transfer" }, "transfer_out": null, "hub_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/switch/" }, "pricing": { "verified": true, "status": "verified_primary", "method": "headless_render", "summary": "Dynadot publishes its full catalog as one paginated table, TLD, registration, renewal and transfer per row, at dynadot.com/domain/prices. Every figure here is rendered from that table (the page serves ten rows at a time, so the collector switches it to its 500-per-page view and walks the remainder). Verified 2026-08-19 across 252 tracked TLDs, replacing the six hand-fetched per-TLD pages this profile previously relied on; several prices had moved since the June read and are now current.", "last_verified": "2026-09-28", "primary_sources": [ "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/prices" ], "prices_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/dynadot/#pricing", "dataset_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/pricing.csv" } }