Hexonet

Hexonet — Wholesale platform with 1,000+ TLDs, bulk checks and a free OT&E on signup. Hexonet, part of Team Internet Group after the CentralNic consolidation, runs a command-based HTTP API with genuinely enormous TLD coverage and open-source client libraries for most languages. Bulk availability, suggestion data, contact handles, status events and auth-code retrieval are all present. Signup grants an OT&E account immediately; live registrations need an approved reseller account and a funded prepaid balance. Built by Team Internet Group. Founded 1999.

We track it in 1 comparison — Domain APIs — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 14 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• Reseller contract — Yes, which only 3 of 15 tools here manage.
• .au support — Yes, which only 4 of 12 tools here manage.
• Pricing basis — wholesale, tied for best across 3 of 15 tools.
• .com renewal — $11.3 /yr, 4th of 15.
• TLDs offered — 1,000 TLDs, tied for best across 2 of 14 tools.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• API since — 1999, 14th of 15. Porkbun records 2019.
• API auth — user-password, 11th of 15. Gandi records bearer-token.
• Privacy via API — paid-addon, 9th of 15. Porkbun records free-and-default.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 24 of 26 tracked fields carry a value for Hexonet, and 3 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-07-23. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is Direct EPP (own accreditation). Hexonet is ahead on Spend to first call ($0 up front against $7,500 up front) and Renewal price in API (Yes against No). Direct EPP (own accreditation) takes API since (2004 against 1999). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see Hexonet alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Team Internet Group

Founded

1999

Fields we track

24 of 26

Last verified

2026-07-23

The widest TLD coverage here, with bulk checks, contact handles and a free OT&E from day one — the lowest-friction way into wholesale. The command-and-parameter API style is idiosyncratic and the wiki assumes you already know the domain lifecycle.

Reseller contract

●Yes1st of 15

Inferred

.au support

●Yes1st of 12

Inferred

Pricing basis

wholesale1st of 15

Inferred

.com renewal

$11.3 /yr4th of 15

Inferred

TLDs offered

1,000 TLDs1st of 14

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-23source

API since

199914th of 15

Inferred

Spend to first call

$0 up front1st of 14

Inferred

Register endpoint

●Yes1st of 14

Inferred

Hexonet is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• Registering unusual ccTLDs through one integration.
• Evaluating a wholesale platform before signing anything.
• Teams that want official SDKs rather than hand-rolled clients.
• Reseller contract is your binding constraint. Hexonet records Yes, which only 3 of the 15 tools in the Domain APIs roster do. We define that field as must a reseller or partner agreement be applied for and countersigned before production API access is granted? Partial means an application form and manual approval but no negotiated contract.
• .au support is your binding constraint. Hexonet records Yes, which only 4 of the 12 tools in the Domain APIs roster do.
• Pricing basis is your binding constraint. Hexonet records wholesale, the best figure in the Domain APIs roster.
• .com renewal is your binding constraint. Hexonet records $11.3 /yr, 4th of 15 in the Domain APIs roster.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• API since. Hexonet records 1999, 14th of 15 in the Domain APIs roster. Porkbun records 2019 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• API auth. Hexonet records user-password, 11th of 15 in the Domain APIs roster. Gandi records bearer-token on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Privacy via API. Hexonet records paid-addon, 9th of 15 in the Domain APIs roster. Porkbun records free-and-default on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 2 of the 26 fields we track for Hexonet are still blank: Min prepaid balance and Rate limit. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.