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Osint Daily cover for ViewDNS.info, under Domain & infrastructure, published 24 Oct 2026. The right side is a monogram because no capture is filed. DNS and WHOIS lookups. Live pricing did not open.

01 · Product name

ViewDNS.info

DNS and WHOIS lookups. Live pricing did not open.

Published by ViewDNS.info.

Free and paidAPIDomain & infrastructure

In short

ViewDNS.info is a DNS and WHOIS lookup site. On 24 Oct 2026 the live host returned a Cloudflare check and HTTP 403, so no live price was read. A Wayback capture of the API pricing page, timestamped 2026-06-05, prints a free sandbox of 250 trial queries and paid cards at $49, $149, and $549 a month. That capture also prints a monthly table, an annual table, and prepaid packs. No SPDX field was on the capture. A row is a lead, not proof of who operates a host today.

Website

Product pricing strategy

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Free and paid

The live ViewDNS.info pricing page did not open on 24 Oct 2026. Chrome showed a Cloudflare check and curl returned HTTP 403, so the live page printed no price this review could read. The prices below are from the Wayback Machine capture of https://viewdns.info/api/pricing/ timestamped 2026-06-05, not from a live load. That capture’s cards say Sandbox is Free with 250 Trial Queries, Developer is $49 / month for 2,500 Monthly Queries, Professional is $149 / month for 15,000, and Business is $549 / month for 100,000. Enterprise says Contact Us. The same capture’s monthly table also prints $29, $89, $119, $179, $209, and $299 / month. The annual table prints $319 annually for 1,000 monthly queries and $6,039 annually for 100,000. Prepaid prints $49 one time for 1,000 queries. Quote each table. Do not treat the Developer card’s $49 as the prepaid pack’s $49, and do not divide an annual total into a month. No SPDX field was printed on the capture.

Utility and features

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Chrome titles for https://viewdns.info/, https://viewdns.info/api/, and https://viewdns.info/api/pricing/ were Just a moment. Curl to each returned HTTP 403. This listing does not describe a lookup result from the live site.

  • The live site did not open. Chrome stopped on a Cloudflare check. Curl returned HTTP 403 for the homepage, /api/, and /api/pricing/.
  • 5 Jun 2026 cards. Sandbox free, 250 trial queries. Developer $49, Professional $149, Business $549 a month. Enterprise says Contact Us.
  • Three more price tables. The same capture prints a monthly ladder, an annual ladder from $319 to $6,039, and prepaid packs from $49 one time.

The Wayback Machine capture https://web.archive.org/web/20260605142658/https://viewdns.info/api/pricing/ is titled ViewDNS.info API Pricing Plans and is dated by the Wayback toolbar as 5 Jun 2026, within a range the toolbar printed as 23 Jan 2025 to 05 Jun 2026. The intro says you can choose a monthly subscription or pay-as-you-go, and that the query limit for paid plans, including prepaid options, can be used across all APIs with one subscription. The cards are Sandbox, Free, 250 Trial Queries, Access most APIs; Developer, $49 / month, 2,500 Monthly Queries; Professional, $149 / month, 15,000 Monthly Queries, marked Most Popular; Business, $549 / month, 100,000 Monthly Queries; and Enterprise, Contact Us. A monthly table on the same capture also lists $29, $89, $119, $179, $209, and $299 a month at other query counts. The annual table lists $319 annually for 1,000 monthly queries through $6,039 annually for 100,000. Prepaid packs run from $49 one time for 1,000 queries to $3,599 one time for 500,000 queries. The footer of that capture names APIs including Reverse WHOIS, Reverse IP, IP History, and also Ping, Traceroute, and Port Scanner.

  1. 1

    Say the live host did not open. Put the 2026-06-05 timestamp on every price you take from the Wayback capture.

  2. 2

    Quote the card, the monthly row, the annual row, and the prepaid pack as separate sentences.

  3. 3

    Leave port scanning, ping, and traceroute undescribed. A WHOIS row this review did not open is not quoted.

Caveats

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A 5 Jun 2026 capture is not the live site on 24 Oct 2026. The cards, the monthly table, the annual table, and the prepaid list do not share one price for a query count. Developer at $49 / month is 2,500 monthly queries. Prepaid at $49 one time is 1,000 queries. Annual at $539 is the capture’s annual line for 2,500 monthly queries, not a second statement of the $49 card. Do not average them.

The capture’s API list includes Port Scanner, Ping, and Traceroute beside Reverse WHOIS and IP History. This listing is the passive lookup set. It does not describe how to scan a port. No live WHOIS row was opened, so no registrant name is quoted. A historical capture of a pricing page is not evidence the same cards are on the site today. No SPDX field was on the capture.

Potential use cases

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  • A Wayback price is about to be briefed as today’s card. On 24 Oct 2026 Chrome showed a Cloudflare check and curl returned HTTP 403 for viewdns.info, /api/, and /api/pricing/. The prices in this listing are the Wayback capture timestamped 2026-06-05. The live page printed no price this review could read. No SPDX field was on the capture.
  • The Developer card’s $49 is about to be merged with the prepaid pack. On that capture, Developer is $49 / month for 2,500 monthly queries. Prepaid is $49 one time for 1,000 queries. The monthly table also prints $29, $89, $119, $179, $209, and $299. The annual table prints $319 through $6,039. Quote the table you mean.
  • Port Scanner is about to become a method. The capture’s footer names Ping, Traceroute, and Port Scanner beside Reverse WHOIS and IP History. This listing is the passive lookup set. It does not describe how to scan a port. No live WHOIS row was opened, so no registrant name is quoted.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

The 5 Jun capture is called live

The cards at $49, $149, and $549 a month are the Wayback capture of 2026-06-05. The live host on 24 Oct 2026 returned HTTP 403. Dating those cards to 24 Oct, or dropping the capture timestamp, presents an old page as the site that loaded.

Questions

Is ViewDNS.info free?

The live site did not open on 24 Oct 2026, so it printed no price this review could read. The Wayback capture of 5 Jun 2026 shows a free sandbox of 250 trial queries and paid cards beginning at $49 / month. No SPDX field was on that capture.

Why is $49 on the page twice?

On the 5 Jun 2026 capture, the Developer card is $49 / month for 2,500 monthly queries. The prepaid list is $49 one time for 1,000 queries. They are different tables.

Citations

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