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Domain registration, domain lifecycle management and DNS from GoDaddy, through the GoDaddy Domains APIs (v1, v2 and v3) on the GoDaddy Developer Platform.

Provider Summary

total services: 4
total resources: 32

See also: [SHOW] [DESCRIBE] [REGISTRY]

Installation​

To pull the latest version of the godaddy provider, run the following command:

REGISTRY PULL godaddy;

To view previous provider versions or to pull a specific provider version, see here.

Authentication​

The provider authenticates with a GoDaddy Personal Access Token (PAT), sent as a bearer token. Create one on the GoDaddy Developer Platform with the scopes the queries need (domains.domain:read for inventory queries, domains.dns:update for DNS changes, domains.domain:update and domains.nameserver:update for domain settings, domains.domain:create for registration), then export it:

  • GODADDY_API_KEY - the Personal Access Token
export GODADDY_API_KEY='gd_...'

or using PowerShell:

$env:GODADDY_API_KEY = 'gd_...'

This variable is sourced at runtime (from the local machine or as a CI variable/secret).

Classic Developer Key (sso-key)

GoDaddy is retiring the classic key/secret credential (it is deprecated for the Domains APIs and does not work with the Domains v3 API). Where a classic key is still in use, put the pair in a single variable as key:secret and pass an api_key auth context with the sso-key prefix using the --auth flag of the stackql program:

export GODADDY_SSO_KEY='<key>:<secret>'
AUTH='{ "godaddy": { "type": "api_key", "valuePrefix": "sso-key ", "credentialsenvvar": "GODADDY_SSO_KEY" }}'
stackql shell --auth="${AUTH}"

or using PowerShell:

$env:GODADDY_SSO_KEY = '<key>:<secret>'
$Auth = "{ 'godaddy': { 'type': 'api_key', 'valuePrefix': 'sso-key ', 'credentialsenvvar': 'GODADDY_SSO_KEY' }}"
stackql.exe shell --auth=$Auth

Resources with the _v3 suffix reject the classic key.

API versions and resource naming​

GoDaddy publishes three Domains APIs, and this provider exposes all of them side by side. The resource name tells you which one you are using:

Resource nameAPINotes
bare (domains, records, agreements, ...)Domains v1The original API: full domain detail with contacts, DNS records by type and name, purchase and renewal. Collections are complete (the domain list is paged with a marker cursor automatically).
_v2 suffix (domains_v2, actions_v2, forwards_v2, ...)Domains v2Customer-scoped and asynchronous: registrant changes, privacy forwarding, pending actions, notifications, forwarding rules, the transfer workflow. Every method takes a customer_id (see below).
_v3 suffix (domains_v3, records_v3, registrations_v3, ...)Domains v3The newest API (PAT only): record-id based DNS management, the quote-then-register model, HATEOAS pagination followed automatically, asynchronous operations polled through godaddy.domains.operations_v3.

Customer scope (Domains v2)​

The Domains v2 resources address a customer by its UUID (not the numeric shopper number). The customer identifier is a server variable resolved from the GODADDY_CUSTOMER_ID environment variable when it is set, so queries need no WHERE customer_id clause:

export GODADDY_CUSTOMER_ID='<customer-uuid>'
SELECT type, origination, status, created_at
FROM godaddy.domains.actions_v2
WHERE domain = 'example.com';

A WHERE customer_id = '...' value always takes precedence over the environment, which is how a reseller acts on a subaccount. With the variable unset, customer_id is a required parameter on every _v2 method and SHOW METHODS lists it.

Parameter and column casing​

Columns and parameters are snake_case at the SQL surface over GoDaddy's camelCase wire names: name_servers, renew_auto, record_id, page_size. Request body fields follow the same rule, so INSERT columns and UPDATE assignments use snake_case too. Nested JSON values (contacts, prices, links) keep the wire casing inside the blob and are addressed with json_extract.

Two v1 query parameters are SQL keywords. Quote them in a WHERE clause, or use LIMIT, which is pushed down to the API's page-size parameter on the list reads:

SELECT domain, status FROM godaddy.domains.domains LIMIT 10;
SELECT domain FROM godaddy.registration.suggestions WHERE query = 'stackql' LIMIT 5;

Rate limit​

The Domains API allows 60 requests per minute per credential and answers 429 Too Many Requests with a Retry-After header beyond that. Wide queries that fan out across many domains (DNS records for every domain, for example) should be sequenced rather than issued in parallel sessions.

Domain inventory​

Every domain in the account with its lifecycle status and expiry, across all statuses:

SELECT domain, status, expires, renew_auto, locked, privacy
FROM godaddy.domains.domains
ORDER BY expires;

Only active domains, filtered server-side (statuses and status_groups are pushed down as query parameters):

SELECT domain, expires, name_servers
FROM godaddy.domains.domains
WHERE statuses = 'ACTIVE';

Domains expiring within 90 days:

SELECT domain, expires, renew_auto
FROM godaddy.domains.domains
WHERE statuses = 'ACTIVE'
AND expires < datetime('now', '+90 days')
ORDER BY expires;

The same inventory through the v3 API, with lifecycle group filtering and cursor pagination handled for you:

SELECT domain, status, expires_at, renew_by, auto_renew, transfer_lock
FROM godaddy.domains.domains_v3
WHERE statuses = 'ACTIVE,EXPIRED';

Domain detail and registrant contacts​

SELECT domain, status, created_at, expires,
       json_extract(contact_registrant, '$.nameFirst') AS registrant_first_name,
       json_extract(contact_registrant, '$.nameLast') AS registrant_last_name,
       json_extract(contact_registrant, '$.email') AS registrant_email,
       json_extract(contact_registrant, '$.organization') AS registrant_org
FROM godaddy.domains.domains
WHERE domain = 'example.com';

Nameserver audit​

Domains whose nameservers are not GoDaddy's, with the delegation:

SELECT domain, name_servers
FROM godaddy.domains.domains
WHERE statuses = 'ACTIVE'
AND name_servers NOT LIKE '%domaincontrol.com%';

DNS records​

All records in a zone (v3, record ids included, paged automatically):

SELECT record_id, name, type, data, ttl, priority
FROM godaddy.dns.records_v3
WHERE zone = 'example.com';

Records of one type, filtered server-side:

SELECT name, data, ttl
FROM godaddy.dns.records_v3
WHERE zone = 'example.com' AND type = 'TXT';

The v1 read by type and name:

SELECT name, type, data, ttl
FROM godaddy.dns.records
WHERE domain = 'example.com' AND type = 'A' AND name = '@';

Availability and pricing​

SELECT domain, available, definitive, price, currency, period
FROM godaddy.registration.availability
WHERE domain = 'my-next-domain.com';

Price terms through the v3 API (prices is a JSON array of term prices):

SELECT domain, available, inventory,
       json_extract(prices, '$[0].price.value') AS first_year_cents,
       json_extract(prices, '$[0].renewalPrice.value') AS renewal_cents
FROM godaddy.registration.availability_v3
WHERE domain = 'my-next-domain.com';

Name suggestions:

SELECT domain FROM godaddy.registration.suggestions
WHERE query = 'stackql' AND tlds = 'com,io' LIMIT 10;

Provision, mutate and tear down​

Mutations use the same SQL grammar: INSERT creates a resource, UPDATE patches it, EXEC invokes lifecycle methods and DELETE removes it. A DNS record end to end (v3):

-- create
INSERT INTO godaddy.dns.records_v3 (zone, name, type, data, ttl)
SELECT 'example.com', 'app', 'A', '203.0.113.10', 3600;

-- find the record id
SELECT record_id FROM godaddy.dns.records_v3
WHERE zone = 'example.com' AND type = 'A' AND name = 'app';

-- replace it (PUT: the full record is required)
UPDATE godaddy.dns.records_v3
SET name = 'app', type = 'A', data = '203.0.113.11', ttl = 600
WHERE zone = 'example.com' AND record_id = '<record-id>';

-- remove it
DELETE FROM godaddy.dns.records_v3
WHERE zone = 'example.com' AND record_id = '<record-id>';

Bulk record writes through the v1 API take the record array as the records attribute:

EXEC godaddy.dns.records.add
  @domain = 'example.com',
  @records = '[{"type": "TXT", "name": "_verify", "data": "token", "ttl": 600}]';

EXEC godaddy.dns.records.replace_by_type_name
  @domain = 'example.com', @type = 'A', @name = 'app',
  @records = '[{"data": "203.0.113.12", "ttl": 600}]';

Domain settings:

-- auto-renew and transfer lock
UPDATE godaddy.domains.domains
SET renew_auto = 'true', locked = 'true'
WHERE domain = 'example.com';

-- nameservers through the v3 API (asynchronous - poll the returned operation)
EXEC godaddy.domains.domains_v3.update_nameservers
  @domain_name = 'example.com',
  @idempotency_key = '2f1e0c4e-0d5b-4c6a-9d1e-1c2b3a4d5e6f',
  @name_servers = '["ns1.example.net", "ns2.example.net"]';

SELECT operation_id, type, status, result
FROM godaddy.domains.operations_v3
WHERE operation_id = '<operation-id>';

Registration through the v3 quote-then-register model (INSERT returns the quote and registration objects; both are billable operations):

INSERT INTO godaddy.registration.registration_quotes_v3 (domain, period)
SELECT 'my-next-domain.com', 1;

INSERT INTO godaddy.registration.registrations_v3 (quote_token, consent, idempotency_key)
SELECT '<quote-token>', '{"agreementKeys": ["DNRA"], "agreedAt": "2026-09-16T00:00:00Z", "agreedBy": "203.0.113.5"}', '<uuid>';

Renewal (v1, billable) and the registrant email verification are lifecycle methods on the domain:

EXEC godaddy.domains.domains.renew @domain = 'example.com', @period = 1;
EXEC godaddy.domains.domains.verify_registrant_email @domain = 'example.com';

Services​

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