June 2024

GoDaddy restricted its Domains API to accounts holding at least ten domains or an active Discount Domain Club membership. Integrations that had run for years on small accounts started returning authorisation errors with no migration path, and because the OTE environment stayed open, the failures only appeared in production.

GoDaddy restricted its domain API to accounts holding a meaningful number of domains or an active paid Discount Domain Club plan, cutting off small-portfolio automation that had worked for years. On this page it matters mainly as a signal about how retail customers are treated. The programmatic consequences are covered on the domain API providers comparison.