Question 1

When is a lookup billable?

Accepted Answer

Every completed lookup costs $0.035, whether a domain is found or no match is found. Repeated completed requests are charged again, including found and no-match responses served from saved results. Invalid input, authentication failures, rate-limit rejections, server errors, provider failures and timeouts are free.

Question 2

What happens when no domain is found?

Accepted Answer

A completed search with no match returns HTTP 200 with success: true, data.domain: null and confidence: 0. It costs $0.035, including when the same no-match result is returned from saved results. This means the lookup did not find a match; it does not prove that the company has no website. Provider failures return a free error instead.

Question 3

Does a repeated request refresh the result?

Accepted Answer

No. Found and no-match results are reused until manually updated by the operator. Repeating a company name does not force a new search. Confidence is an estimate, and is_live describes the assessment made during the search rather than a current uptime check.

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