specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: OnlineNIC
providerId: onlinenic
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-17'
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Domains/index/19.html
docs: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Reseller/index/18.html
tags:
  - Domains
  - Reseller
  - Pricing
description: >-
  OnlineNIC's published plan structure. NOTE ON PROVENANCE: this file previously carried a
  Free/Professional/Enterprise scaffold with invented quotas and TBD prices, written by a 2026-05-04
  bulk sweep and never harvested from the provider. That scaffold was wrong in kind, not just in
  detail — OnlineNIC does not sell API access in tiers at all. It was replaced on 2026-09-17 with
  what the provider actually publishes on its own pricing page.
plan_model: prepayment-tier
api_pricing:
  model: free-with-account
  note: >-
    API access is not a priced product. The reseller pages state "No setup fees, no annual fees, sign
    up now to get API access" and "FREE Use of Reseller API/template System". What a reseller pays for
    is the underlying domain, certificate and hosting inventory; the tier they sit in determines the
    wholesale price of that inventory, not their API entitlement. There is no request quota, no API
    metering and no overage.
  source: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Module/index/17.html
plan_count: 4
plans:
  - id: onlinenic-platinum
    name: Platinum
    type: prepayment-tier
    price: '1129.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: one-time prepayment
    description: >-
      Highest reseller tier. "Again, all prepayment can be spent" — the prepayment is account credit,
      not a fee. Buys the lowest wholesale prices across the TLD and certificate catalogue.
    example_wholesale_prices:
      - product: .COM registration
        price: '11.29'
      - product: .ORG registration
        price: '11.86'
      - product: .INFO registration
        price: '22.49'
  - id: onlinenic-gold
    name: Gold
    type: prepayment-tier
    price: '565.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: one-time prepayment
    example_wholesale_prices:
      - product: .COM registration
        price: '11.59'
      - product: .ORG registration
        price: '12.26'
      - product: .INFO registration
        price: '22.99'
  - id: onlinenic-silver
    name: Silver
    type: prepayment-tier
    price: '268.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: one-time prepayment
    example_wholesale_prices:
      - product: .COM registration
        price: '12.09'
      - product: .ORG registration
        price: '12.76'
      - product: .INFO registration
        price: '23.29'
  - id: onlinenic-bronze
    name: Bronze
    type: prepayment-tier
    price: '113.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: one-time prepayment
    example_wholesale_prices:
      - product: .COM registration
        price: '12.59'
      - product: .ORG registration
        price: '13.26'
      - product: .INFO registration
        price: '23.99'
minimum_prepayment:
  amount: '98.90'
  currency: USD
  source: >-
    Error code 1030 in the API reference — "Please add at least $98.9 prepayment to your account." The
    API refuses to transact below this balance, which makes it a hard runtime constraint on an agent,
    not just a commercial term.
billing_errors:
  - code: 1023
    meaning: Billing error — check account balance.
  - code: 1030
    meaning: Minimum prepayment not met.
catalogue:
  url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Domains/index/19.html
  status: 200
  tld_rows: 394
  note: >-
    The pricing page publishes a per-TLD wholesale price for each of the four tiers across gTLDs, new
    gTLDs and ccTLDs, with separate registration and renewal figures. Prices are read from the rendered
    table; a few TLDs also have a promotional first-year price shown alongside the standard price.
  machine_readable: false
  machine_readable_note: >-
    There is no pricing API or downloadable price feed on the public site. The API's own getSSLprice
    and getSSLProductDetails commands return certificate prices to an authenticated reseller, and the
    WHMCS Pricing Importer consumes "the official CSV file" — but that CSV is behind the reseller
    control panel, so no machine-readable price list is publicly reachable.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com