DomCop is a large database of expiring and dropped domains that you pay for by the year and filter yourself. SEODomain is the other way round: a short list of expired domains we have already checked, each with its Ahrefs report, its first registration year and an asking price on the listing, plus a direct link to buy it from whoever holds it.
Membership $24.50/mo billed yearly, or $49/mo. One listing unlocked free when you open an account. DomCop's cheapest plan that searches dropped domains is $1,152 a year.
| Domain | DR | Backlinks | Ref. domains | Age | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
cus*****nce.io
Technology
|
51 | 214 | 164 | 12 years | $1,800 |
|
por*****hub.io
Premium SEO domain
|
42 | 626 | 228 | 7 years | $2,400 |
The short answer
The closest alternatives to DomCop are SpamZilla, SEODomain, CatchDoms and ExpiredDomains.net. SpamZilla is the direct like-for-like: a finder database billed at $37 a month instead of $816 to $1,416 a year. ExpiredDomains.net is the free version of the same idea with far less data. CatchDoms is a European database with an API at 468 EUR a year. SEODomain is not a database at all: it is a short list of expired domains that have already been vetted, with the Ahrefs report and an asking price attached.
Pick a database when you buy domains every week and enjoy the filtering. Pick SEODomain when you need one or two good domains, would rather read a report than build a filter, and want to know the price before you commit.
DomCop plans and prices checked on domcop.com in September 2026.
Including the columns where DomCop wins outright, because a comparison that hides them is an advertisement, and you would find out on your own within a week.
| Source | Access cost | What you search | Who vets it | How you buy the domain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEODomain | $24.50/mo billed yearly ($294/yr), or $49/mo. One listing free on sign-up. | A short hand-picked list with DR, backlinks, referring domains, age and price shown before you pay | We do, before listing, and hand you the Ahrefs report | At the asking price, direct from the registrar or broker holding it. Members can send an offer instead. |
| DomCop | Newbie $816/yr, Power $1,152/yr, Guru $1,416/yr, all billed yearly. No free trial, 2 day refund for new customers. | About 1.9 million expiring, 12.8 million expired and 19.8 million dropped domains across 46 extensions, with 90 plus metrics from Moz, Majestic, Estibot and Semrush | You do, using the metrics and its Google ban check | You bid or register at GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet, Dynadot or the registrar yourself |
| SpamZilla | $37/mo billed monthly. Free plan reviews 25 domains. | Millions of expired and expiring names, 70 plus filters, a spam score and 1,850 credits a month for your own lists | You do, using the spam score | You bid or buy at the source yourself |
| CatchDoms | 468 EUR/yr according to its own DomCop comparison page | Expired domain database with quality scoring, language detection and API access | You do | You bid or buy at the source yourself |
| ExpiredDomains.net | Free with registration | Raw drop and auction lists with basic metrics | Nobody | You bid or register at the source yourself |
DomCop figures are from domcop.com and its published pricing guide. SpamZilla figures are from spamzilla.io. CatchDoms states its own price on its comparison page. All checked September 2026; prices change, so confirm on the vendor's site before you pay.
DomCop's pricing page shows one price per plan and it is a yearly one. The Newbie plan at $816 only opens the Expiring section, which is names still sitting in auctions or about to be released. To search domains that have already dropped, the part most SEO buyers actually want, you need Power at $1,152 a year. That is the real entry price for the tool most people have in mind when they say DomCop.
For an agency or a portfolio builder buying a domain a week, $1,152 spread over fifty purchases is nothing. For a founder or a marketer who needs one strong domain for one project, it is more than the domain is likely to cost, and there is no monthly plan to cancel after a good month. The two day refund window for first-time customers is the only exit, and two days is not long enough to run a real search.
That is the gap this page exists for. SEODomain membership is $294 a year or $49 for a single month. The 2 domains in the catalogue right now are priced from $1,800 to $2,400, with Ahrefs DR 42 to 51 and 164 to 228 referring domains, and every one of those numbers is public on the listing before you pay a cent. A DomCop subscriber finds the same kind of domain after a few evenings of filtering, then bids for it against everyone else who set the same filters.
Coverage. DomCop's own front page counts about 1.9 million expiring domains, 12.8 million expired domains and 19.8 million dropped domains across 46 extensions, pulled from GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet pre-release, Dynadot auctions and both public and private drop lists. Nobody on this page matches that breadth, and if the domain you want is a specific name rather than a specific quality, a big net is the only way to catch it.
Metrics. It attaches more than ninety of them, including Moz Domain Authority and Page Authority, Majestic Trust Flow and Topical Trust Flow, the Estibot valuation and Semrush traffic, and it runs its own check on whether Google has de-indexed the name. That saves a lot of tab switching for someone who evaluates fifty candidates a day.
The crawler. The Guru plans include a personal expired domain crawler that scrapes websites in bulk and reports the dead outbound links it finds, which is how the best private domain finds happen. DomCop reports that Guru III subscribers crawl an average of 75 million pages and find 50,000 domains a month. That is a professional tool for a professional buyer.
The honest criticism is the one that applies to every database. It hands you candidates, not decisions. The Moz and Majestic numbers say nothing about whether the links are from real publications or a link seller's network, and the Google ban check catches only the domains that were caught. The evenings spent opening archive snapshots are the real price, and they do not appear on the invoice.
Every listing shows Ahrefs DR, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and the asking price with the name masked. No filters to build.
Your first unlock is free when you open an account. Membership unlocks every listing, the full Ahrefs report and the direct purchase link, and e-mails you when a new domain passes the checks.
The domain is bought separately from the registrar or broker holding it, at the price on the listing. Members can send an offer instead of paying the asking price.
DomCop is worth its price for a buyer who purchases several expired domains a month and wants one screen that covers GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet, Dynadot and the public drop lists with Moz, Majestic, Estibot and Semrush metrics attached. For a buyer who needs one clean domain this quarter, the cheapest plan that actually searches dropped domains is $1,152 a year, which is more than many good domains cost.
DomCop lists three plans on its pricing page, all billed yearly: Newbie at $816 a year, Power at $1,152 a year and Guru at $1,416 a year. Its own pricing guide adds Guru II at $2,832 and Guru III at $4,272 for 30 and 50 crawlers. Newbie covers the Expiring section only. Power adds the Expired and Archived sections. Guru adds a personal expired domain crawler.
No. DomCop states on its pricing page that it does not offer a free trial. New customers who have never subscribed before can e-mail support within two days of paying for a full refund, which is the only way to see the database without committing to a year.
It depends on which part of DomCop you are replacing. For a short vetted list with the Ahrefs report handed over and a fixed asking price, SEODomain. For a similar database at a monthly price instead of a yearly one, SpamZilla at $37 a month. For raw drop lists at no cost, ExpiredDomains.net. For a European database with API access, CatchDoms. No single tool replaces every part of DomCop.
They do the same job at different billing terms. SpamZilla costs $37 a month, billed monthly, and leans on its spam score and 70 plus filters. DomCop costs $816 to $1,416 a year, billed yearly, covers more sources including archived drops, and adds a personal crawler on the Guru plan. A buyer who wants to cancel after one search is better off with SpamZilla. A buyer who searches every week all year is better off with DomCop.
No. DomCop is a research database. It shows domains that are expiring, at auction or already dropped, with metrics, and links you to the auction house or registrar where the name can be bought. You still bid or register at that source, at whatever price the auction settles for, and you still do the vetting yourself.
Yes, up to two. DomCop allows two people to share one account. Sharing with more than two, or buying access through a group-buy reseller, results in an immediate ban according to its own pricing guide, so the cheap shared logins advertised on forums are a way to lose the account, not a discount.
Open an account, reveal one listing and read its Ahrefs report without paying anything. If the shortlist is not better than what you would filter out of DomCop yourself, you have lost ten minutes and nothing else.
Comparing other options? Read the DomCop pricing breakdown, the SpamZilla alternative, the Odys Global alternative, or go straight to expired domains with backlinks and high DA domains for sale.