DomainDrift 0.88: every plan refuels daily, and alerts retry until they land

DomainDrift watches more than a million domains and records what their infrastructure is doing: DNS, certificates, mail posture, registration, reachability. Every observation is signed the moment it is made.

The 0.86 wave turned a single domain into a portfolio you can watch. This wave, through 0.88, changes how a plan fuels that work, and makes delivery a promise instead of an attempt.

Your plan refuels every morning

Every plan now includes DomainDrift credits that refresh in full every day at midnight UTC. An API request costs 0.05 credits, and the allowance on each plan is sized so a normal day of real work fits comfortably inside it: check your portfolio, poll the change feed, pull your exports, and tomorrow the tank is full again.

There is nothing to ration across a month and no surprise at the end of one. The pricing page shows each plan's daily allowance right on the card, and your usage endpoint tells you where today stands at a glance.

Top-ups that never expire

A heavy day past your included allowance does not stop your work: requests draw from your DRM3 credit balance, one balance that spends in every DRM3 app. You buy it once in your account portal, it never expires, and features require an active plan.

When both the day's allowance and your balance are spent, the API answers with a plain explanation of what happened and where to top up. There is no surprise overage bill, ever.

An alert is delivered, or it retries

A signed webhook alert that fails to deliver is no longer a line in a log. Failed deliveries are kept and retried with backoff, so a receiver that was down for an hour still gets its alert, and you can see the delivery health of every endpoint you have registered.

Plan capacity now arrives automatically as well: how many alert subscriptions you can hold and how fast your API keys are allowed to go are both delivered by your plan the moment it activates, with no support ticket in between.

The new plans

The ladder is live: Solo at $9.90, Pro at $31.90, Business at $108.90, and Reseller at $273.90 a month, sized from a single portfolio to a reseller managing thousands of domains. Each card leads with what you can watch, prove, and export; the daily credit allowance sits quietly underneath it.

The free tier stays free and refuels daily too: enough to look up domains, watch five of your own, and evaluate the whole product. Start at domaindrift.io: search a name you know, open its page, and see what has moved.