Market Opportunity
Replace broken WHOIS with an RDAP-first JSON drop-in API targets a $1.6B = 80,000 mid-market and enterprise orgs x $20,000 ACV. Assumes any org with security/compliance and domain portfolios will pay for authoritative domain intelligence integrated into tooling. total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 15-25% driven by cloud adoption and domain risk tooling demand.
Key trends driving demand: RDAP adoption -- registries and ICANN standardized RDAP, shifting authoritative lookups from WHOIS text to JSON.; Security automation -- growing investment in automated threat hunting and asset inventory increases demand for reliable domain metadata.; Compliance scrutiny -- privacy and attribution requirements force teams to keep auditable records of registrant data and changes..
Key competitors include WhoisXML API, DomainTools, SecurityTrails, ICANN and registry RDAP endpoints, In-house WHOIS/RDAP scrapers and wrappers.