Your domain script costs more than you think

A quick script to pull domains from a registrar API feels like the pragmatic choice - until you need expiry alerts, DNS records, email security checks, and a way for your team to see it all.

COMPARISON

DIY scripts vs Tidy Names

Setup time

Days to weeks of development

Connect an API key - domains sync within seconds

Registrar coverage

One integration per registrar, each with its own API

Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Porkbun built in

API changes

Your script breaks when the registrar updates its API

We maintain the integrations - you just use the dashboard

DNS records

More API calls to write, test, and maintain

Every A, CNAME, MX, and TXT record synced automatically

Email security

Separate DMARC/SPF/DKIM logic to implement

Portfolio-wide email security analysis out of the box

Alerting

Build your own notification pipeline

Email alerts, webhooks, and team routing - configurable per threshold

UI and search

CLI output or a custom frontend to build

Full dashboard with search, filters, tags, and exports

Team access

Share the script or build auth yourself

5 roles with 25 granular permissions, ready to go

	DIY scripts	Tidy Names
Setup time	Days to weeks of development	Connect an API key - domains sync within seconds
Registrar coverage	One integration per registrar, each with its own API	Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Porkbun built in
API changes	Your script breaks when the registrar updates its API	We maintain the integrations - you just use the dashboard
DNS records	More API calls to write, test, and maintain	Every A, CNAME, MX, and TXT record synced automatically
Email security	Separate DMARC/SPF/DKIM logic to implement	Portfolio-wide email security analysis out of the box
Alerting	Build your own notification pipeline	Email alerts, webhooks, and team routing - configurable per threshold
UI and search	CLI output or a custom frontend to build	Full dashboard with search, filters, tags, and exports
Team access	Share the script or build auth yourself	5 roles with 25 granular permissions, ready to go

HIDDEN COSTS

The real price of rolling your own

The initial script is cheap. Everything after that is not.

Maintenance never stops

Registrar APIs change, rate limits shift, and new edge cases surface. Every hour spent maintaining your script is an hour not spent on your actual product.

Bus factor of one

The person who wrote the script is the only one who can fix it. When they leave, the script becomes a liability.

Feature creep without a finish line

It starts as a simple sync. Then you need alerts. Then DNS. Then email security. Then a UI. Then team access. You are building a product you did not plan to build.

MIGRATION

Retire the script in five minutes

Tidy Names connects to the same registrar APIs your script uses. The difference is that we maintain them.

1
Create your account
Free. No credit card. Takes 30 seconds.
2
Connect your registrars
Use the same API keys your script already uses. Tidy Names only needs read-only access.
3
Verify the data
Compare what Tidy Names synced against your script output. Every domain, expiry date, and DNS record should match.
4
Decommission the script
Turn off the cron job, archive the repo, and free up the engineer who maintained it.

Stop maintaining what you can outsource

Connect your registrars and get a full domain dashboard in minutes - not weeks of development. Free for up to 5 domains.

Start for free

Free for up to 5 domains. No credit card required.