{ "_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/spaceship/", "methodology_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/methodology/", "generated_for": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/registrars/spaceship.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": "spaceship", "name": "Spaceship", "slug": "spaceship", "website": "https://www.spaceship.com", "headquarters": "Phoenix, Arizona, United States", "founded": 2023, "icann_accredited": true, "wikipedia_url": null, "best_for": [ "Modern UX", "Competitive renewals", "Bundled email/hosting" ], "not_ideal_for": [ "Legacy enterprise workflows", "Very long product track record" ], "whois_privacy": "Free, included", "two_factor_authentication": "TOTP authenticator app", "api_available": true, "bulk_tools": true, "last_checked": "2026-09-02", "last_reviewed": "2026-04-26", "source": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/registrars.json" }, "editorial_scores": { "scale": "0–10, higher is better; overall is weighted per /methodology/", "overall": 8.4, "why_overall": "Modern UI and competitive renewals from a new but well-backed registrar. Track record is still growing.", "categories": { "pricing": 8.5, "renewal": 8.5, "pricing_transparency": 8.5, "whois_privacy": 9, "dns": 8, "security": 8, "support": 8, "transfer": 8, "tld_coverage": 8, "developer": 8, "beginner_ux": 9 }, "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": 7, "overall": 54.9, "overall_recomputed": 54.9, "summary": "A modern, newer registrar with a clean public API (documented at docs.spaceship.dev) and documented rate limits, covering domains and DNS. The surface is still maturing, no sandbox is documented and no official agent interface exists, and the brand has the shortest track record in the set.", "best_for": [ "Modern DNS automation", "Competitive pricing", "Clean account UX" ], "not_ideal_for": [ "Long track record requirements", "Least-privilege delegation", "Sandbox-first development" ], "criteria": [ { "id": "api_coverage", "name": "API coverage", "weight": 18, "score": 6.5, "note": "Public API covering domains and DNS; surface is newer and still expanding." }, { "id": "auth_delegation", "name": "Authentication & delegation", "weight": 14, "score": 4, "note": "X-API-Key + X-API-Secret headers; 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." }, { "id": "developer_experience", "name": "Developer experience", "weight": 12, "score": 6, "note": "Public docs with documented rate limits; no sandbox documented. A community Terraform provider exists." }, { "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": "Competitive, transparent pricing." }, { "id": "dns_infrastructure", "name": "DNS & infrastructure", "weight": 8, "score": 7, "note": "Modern DNS panel, API-manageable." }, { "id": "privacy_compliance", "name": "Privacy & compliance", "weight": 6, "score": 8, "note": "Free WHOIS privacy; TOTP 2FA." }, { "id": "support_quality", "name": "Support quality", "weight": 4, "score": 7, "note": "Chat and email." }, { "id": "trust_signals", "name": "Trust signals", "weight": 4, "score": 6.5, "note": "ICANN accredited but launched 2023 (shortest track record); affiliated with Namecheap's group." } ], "last_checked": "2026-06-21", "sources": [ "https://docs.spaceship.dev/" ], "report_card_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/agent-readiness-index/spaceship/", "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": null, "openapi": null, "rate_limit": "Per-endpoint (e.g. 300 requests / 300s per user for DNS record listing)", "gating": null, "live_tested": false, "docs_url": "https://docs.spaceship.dev/", "note": "A newer API documented per-endpoint rather than with one global ceiling; API-key auth, no sandbox or scoped tokens yet.", "sources": [ "https://docs.spaceship.dev/" ], "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": false, "coverage": "No source-confirmed transfer guide for this registrar yet; the universal ICANN Transfer Policy applies (60-day lock, authorization code, gaining-registrar initiation, one-year add-on).", "universal_policy_url": "https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/accredited-registrars/resources/domain-name-transfers/policy", "source": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/switch/" }, "pricing": { "verified": true, "status": "verified_primary", "method": "manual_browser_read", "summary": "Spaceship publishes a full per-TLD price table on its own domains page, register, renew, transfer, and the ICANN fee itemised on its own line, and every figure on this site was read from it in a real browser on 2026-08-19 (two independent reads, identical results, cross-checked against the human-readable table). Automation cannot reach it: a plain fetch is refused and the table renders client-side, so this registrar is verified by a documented manual pass rather than the ingestion pipeline. Because Spaceship itemises the mandatory ICANN fee separately, its displayed prices exclude it; the figures are stored exactly as published and every comparison on this site adds the fee back so no registrar is ranked on a fee-excluded basis.", "last_verified": "2026-09-02", "primary_sources": [ "https://www.spaceship.com/domains/" ], "prices_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/spaceship/#pricing", "dataset_url": "https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/pricing.csv" } }