DomCop shows three prices and all three are yearly. That is the detail most reviews skip and the one that decides whether it is a good buy for you. Here are the plans as the pricing page and DomCop's own pricing guide stated them in September 2026, what each one unlocks, and the lines that never make it onto the invoice.
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DomCop costs $816 a year on the Newbie plan, $1,152 a year on Power and $1,416 a year on Guru, all billed yearly with no monthly option and no free trial. Newbie only searches domains that are expiring or at auction. Power is the first plan that searches domains that have already dropped, which is what most SEO buyers want. Guru adds a personal crawler with 10 active crawlers, and Guru II and III raise that to 30 and 50 for $2,832 and $4,272 a year. None of the plans include a domain: you still buy each name at the auction house or registrar, plus registration and renewal.
The three plans on the pricing page list identical feature bullets, which is confusing. The differences below come from DomCop's own pricing guide on its blog, which spells out which section each tier opens.
| Plan | Price | What it unlocks | Who it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newbie | $816/yr ($68/mo equivalent) | The Expiring section: domains in auctions or about to be released, with export. | Auction bidders who never hand register dropped names. A narrow plan for the money. |
| Power | $1,152/yr ($96/mo equivalent) | Expiring plus the Expired and Archived sections: millions of names that already dropped and can be registered outright. | Most SEO buyers. This is the plan people mean when they say DomCop. |
| Guru | $1,416/yr ($118/mo equivalent) | Everything in Power plus a personal expired domain crawler with 10 active crawlers. | Portfolio builders who want domains nobody has listed yet. |
| Guru II | $2,832/yr | 30 active crawlers. | Agencies running crawls for several clients. |
| Guru III | $4,272/yr | 50 active crawlers. DomCop reports Guru III accounts crawl about 75 million pages and find about 50,000 domains a month on average. | Full-time domain investors. |
No free trial. A full refund is available to first-time customers who e-mail support within two days. Payment by card or PayPal, cancellation from the account page. Up to two people may share one account; a third person or a group-buy login means a ban.
The fee buys reach. DomCop's front page counts roughly 1.9 million expiring, 12.8 million expired and 19.8 million dropped domains across 46 extensions, drawn from GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet pre-release, Dynadot auctions and public and private drop lists. It attaches more than ninety metrics, among them Moz DA and PA, Majestic Trust Flow and Topical Trust Flow, the Estibot valuation and Semrush traffic, and it checks whether Google has dropped the name from its index. For someone screening fifty candidates a day, that is a real saving in open tabs.
What the fee does not buy is a domain. Every name you shortlist is still bought at the source. A dropped name in the Expired section costs a registration fee, which is the cheap outcome. A name still in auction with real links goes for whatever the last bidder pays, and the other bidders are working from the same DomCop metrics you are. Then there is the transfer or registration fee, and the renewal every year after.
The third cost is the one no plan page mentions. Ninety metrics narrow a list; they do not read it. Trust Flow says nothing about whether the linking sites are real publications or a seller's network, and the Google ban check catches only the names that were caught. Someone still has to open the Wayback snapshots, read the anchor text and decide. Buyers who do this well spend several hours a week on it. Buyers who skip it register names that were burned years ago, and a burned domain costs exactly the same to buy as a clean one.
Two ways to end up owning one clean expired domain with real referring domains. The DomCop column is a worked example with the assumptions stated, not a quote; your auction results and your hours will differ. The SEODomain column is what our pricing page says.
| Cost line | DomCop route | SEODomain route |
|---|---|---|
| Access to the list | $1,152 up front for the Power plan, whether the search takes a week or a year. No monthly option. | $49 for a month, or $294 for the year. One listing unlocked free before paying anything. |
| Who reads the history | You do, for every candidate. Ninety metrics are a filter, not a verdict. | Done before listing. The full Ahrefs report comes with the name so you can check the same data. |
| Price of the domain | A registration fee for a hand-registered drop, or an auction result you learn when bidding ends. Names with real links rarely drop unnoticed. | The asking price printed on the listing, or your own offer. No bidding. |
| Registration and renewal | Paid to the registrar on top of the winning bid, then yearly. | Paid to the registrar or broker holding the name, then yearly. Same on any route. |
| Domains that turn out bad | Your risk. Every burned name you register is money and a renewal spent on nothing. | Screened out before listing. A short catalogue is the visible side effect. |
| Your hours | Several a week while the search runs. The largest line for anyone whose time is billable. | Reading a short list and one report. |
Neither column is free and neither is always cheaper. Buy in volume and the DomCop route wins, because the yearly fee spreads across dozens of purchases and the crawler finds names no marketplace will ever list. Need one good name this quarter and a checked domain with its backlink report attached is usually the cheaper total even at a higher asking price, because $1,152 of database access plus a month of evenings is a large number to add to the domain. On either route, the name only starts paying once it has pages again, so plan to publish articles on it the week it lands rather than letting the inherited links point at an empty site.
The DomCop alternative comparison puts DomCop beside SpamZilla, CatchDoms, ExpiredDomains.net and SEODomain in one table. If the monthly billing is what you are after, the SpamZilla pricing breakdown covers the $37 a month finder, and the expired domain price benchmark shows what the auction column settles at on each route.
DomCop does not publish a monthly plan. Its pricing page shows three yearly prices: Newbie at $816 a year, Power at $1,152 a year and Guru at $1,416 a year, which works out to $68, $96 and $118 a month, but you pay the full year up front. Older third-party reviews quote monthly prices from $64 to $198, and those figures no longer appear on DomCop's own site.
No. The pricing page states plainly that there is no free trial. First-time customers can e-mail support within two days of paying and receive a full refund, and that offer applies only to people who have never held a DomCop subscription before. Two days is enough to see the interface, not enough to finish a search.
Newbie opens the Expiring section only: domains in auctions or about to be released. Power adds the Expired section, which is names that have already dropped and can be hand registered, and the Archived section of older drops. Guru adds a personal expired domain crawler with 10 active crawlers. Guru II and Guru III raise that to 30 and 50 crawlers at $2,832 and $4,272 a year.
For a buyer who purchases expired domains every week, yes: the yearly fee is small against the auction spend and the crawler finds names nobody has listed. For a buyer who needs one domain for one project, the $1,152 Power plan usually costs more than the domain, and there is no month-to-month option to cancel once the domain is found.
Resellers advertise shared DomCop logins for $6 to $15 a month. DomCop's pricing guide says an account used by more than two people, or accessed through a group-buy service, is banned immediately. You would be paying a stranger for a login that can vanish the same day, with your searches visible to everyone else on it.
No. DomCop is a research database, so the subscription buys the search, the metrics and the crawler. Every domain you find is bought separately at GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet, Dynadot or a registrar, at whatever the auction settles for, plus the registration or transfer fee and the yearly renewal after that.
Every listing in the catalogue carries its DR, backlinks, referring domains, age and asking price in the open. Open an account and you can unlock one of them, report included, without paying.
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