Effective date: 1 October 2026
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your use of drop/expired, the website at dropexpired.net, the web app at app.dropexpired.net, the desktop and mobile apps, the API, the MCP server and the related services (together, the “Service”). The Service is operated by dropexpired.net (“we”, “us”, “our”).
By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or another organisation, you confirm that you may bind it to these Terms, and “you” includes that organisation. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. What the Service does
drop/expired helps you find and track domain names. In particular, it lets you:
- search domain names, including expiring, pending-delete, deleted and auctioned names, using public sources such as registry and registrar lists, WHOIS/RDAP records, web archives and search data;
- view historical and analytical information about a domain;
- keep watch lists, wish lists, saved filters and alerts, and receive notifications by email, push or webhook;
- work together in teams;
- prepare and send orders (registrations, backorders, auction bids and purchases) to third-party registrars, auction houses, drop-catching services and marketplaces through your own accounts at those providers;
- use an AI assistant that searches, organises lists and prepares order previews for you;
- access the Service programmatically through API keys and the MCP server.
We may change, add or remove features over time. Features and limits depend on your plan.
2. Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract to use the Service.
You may sign up with an email address and password or with a supported third-party sign-in (Google, Apple or GitHub). You must give accurate information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for keeping your password, API keys and devices secure and for all activity under your account. Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorised use.
One person may not maintain multiple free accounts to get around plan limits.
3. Teams
A team owner can invite members and assign roles. The team owner is responsible for the team, its subscription, the provider accounts connected to it and the actions of its members within the team. Members act within the permissions and spending limits the owner or an admin sets. When you leave or are removed from a team, you lose access to the team’s workspace; content you created there stays with the team.
4. Third-party providers and orders
We are not a domain registrar, registry, auction house or marketplace, and we do not sell domain names.
- Your accounts, your contracts. Orders are placed in your name, through the provider accounts and credentials you connect. Every order is a contract between you and the provider. The provider’s own terms, prices, fees, refund rules and dispute processes apply, and you are responsible for complying with them.
- Payment for domains. The provider charges your account at that provider directly. We take no payment for domains and do not hold your funds.
- Confirmation. We send an order only after you explicitly confirm its preview. This applies equally to orders prepared by the AI assistant and to orders requested through the API or MCP. You are responsible for every order you, your team members within their permissions, or your API keys confirm.
- No guarantee of results. Domain drops, backorders and auctions are competitive and depend on registries, providers and other bidders. We do not guarantee that you will acquire any domain name, that a price shown will remain available, or that a provider will accept, process or fulfil an order.
- Provider availability. Providers may change or withdraw their interfaces, reject keys or suspend accounts. Some orders must be completed on the provider’s own site. We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, outages or terms of any provider.
- Credentials. You authorise us to store the credentials you connect and to use them solely to test the connection, obtain quotes, place and cancel the orders you confirm, and follow their status. You may disconnect an account at any time.
- Spending limits you set are a convenience. They do not replace your own review of each order.
5. Data about domains
Information shown in the Service, including availability, drop dates, prices, metrics, archive history, search data, topics and classifications, is compiled from public and third-party sources and from automated processing. It may be incomplete, delayed, outdated or wrong, and historical data describes the past, not the current state of a domain. The Service does not give legal, trademark, financial or investment advice. Check the information that matters to you, including trademark rights, before you acquire or use a domain name.
6. AI assistant
The AI assistant generates responses automatically and can make mistakes. Its output may be inaccurate, incomplete or unsuitable for your purpose, and you should review it before relying on it. The assistant cannot place an order without your confirmation. Changes it makes to your lists and alerts are shown to you and can be undone for a limited time. Do not enter information into the assistant that you are not allowed to share. AI features are processed with the help of third-party AI model providers as described in our Privacy Policy. Daily limits apply per plan.
Unless you opt out, we keep pseudonymised samples of assistant requests and answers, with personal details removed, to improve and train our own assistant models, as described in section 4 of the Privacy Policy. You can switch this off at any time in Settings → Privacy and delete the samples collected earlier.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Service in breach of any law, including laws on trademarks, cybersquatting, consumer protection, data protection, sanctions and export control;
- use the Service or its data for spam, phishing, malware distribution, fraud or to infringe anyone’s rights;
- access the Service by automated means other than the API and MCP, scrape or crawl the website or the apps, or exceed or work around rate limits, plan limits or other technical restrictions;
- copy, resell, republish or redistribute the Service’s data in bulk, or use it to build a competing database or service, except as allowed by your plan’s export and API features for your own use;
- share accounts or API keys outside your organisation, or sell access to the Service;
- probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Service, or interfere with its operation, other users or the providers it connects to;
- reverse engineer the Service except where the law expressly allows it;
- use the Service in a way that breaches a provider’s terms.
We may investigate suspected breaches and take proportionate action, including rate limiting, revoking API keys, suspending features or closing accounts.
8. API and MCP
API and MCP access is available on the plans that include it.
- API keys are personal to your account or team. Keep them secret and rotate them if they may have been exposed. You are responsible for all calls made with your keys.
- Calls count toward your plan’s daily limits. We may apply rate limits and change the API with reasonable notice for breaking changes, except where a change is needed for security or legal reasons.
- Programs using the API or MCP must go through the same preview and explicit confirmation for orders as the apps.
- If you build a product that uses the Service, you are responsible for it and for your own users. You may not present it as provided or endorsed by us.
- Webhooks are sent to the URLs you configure. You are responsible for the endpoints that receive them and for verifying their signatures.
9. Plans, payment and renewal
The Service offers a Free plan and paid plans (currently Pro and Business), monthly or yearly. Current prices and limits are shown on the pricing page and in the app.
- Where you pay. On the web and desktop, paid plans are billed by Stripe. In the iOS, iPadOS, macOS and Android apps, they may be bought through the Apple App Store or Google Play, and those purchases are also subject to Apple’s or Google’s terms. A subscription is managed where it was bought.
- Automatic renewal. Paid plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price until you cancel. We will tell you in advance of any price change; it applies from your next renewal.
- Cancellation. You can cancel at any time: for web subscriptions under Plan & usage → Manage in Stripe, for store subscriptions in your Apple ID or Google Play subscription settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and your account then returns to the Free plan.
- Failed payments. If a renewal fails, the plan stays active for a grace period while payment is retried. If payment is not made, the account returns to the Free plan.
- Refunds. Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or stated otherwise at the time of purchase. Refunds for App Store or Google Play purchases are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. For web purchases, contact [email protected] if you believe you were charged in error.
- Taxes. Prices may exclude taxes, which are added where required.
- If you have more than one active subscription, the higher plan applies; cancel the one you do not need where it was bought.
10. Promotional codes
We may offer promotional codes, trials or discounts. They are subject to the conditions stated when they are offered, have no cash value, are personal and non-transferable, and may not be sold or published. We may decline, cancel or revoke a code, and the benefit obtained with it, if it was obtained or used in breach of its conditions, by error or through abuse.
11. Your content
You keep all rights to the content you add to the Service, such as lists, notes, filters, alerts and messages to the assistant (“Your Content”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, process and display Your Content only as needed to provide, secure and improve the Service, including, for messages to the assistant, the improvement of our assistant models described in section 6 (unless you opt out). You are responsible for Your Content and confirm that you have the right to use it.
12. Our intellectual property
The Service, including its software, design, databases, compilations of data, text and trademarks, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by law. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your own business or personal purposes. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. If you send us feedback, we may use it without obligation to you.
Third-party data, trademarks and content shown in the Service belong to their respective owners.
13. Notifications
You can choose the emails, push notifications and webhooks you receive. We will still send messages that are necessary for your account, security, billing and orders.
14. Availability and support
We aim to keep the Service available and secure but do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may suspend the Service for maintenance, security or reasons outside our control. Support is available at [email protected].
15. Suspension and termination
You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in Settings. Deleting the account does not cancel a store subscription; cancel it with Apple or Google as well.
We may suspend or terminate your access, with notice where reasonable, if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if your use creates risk or harm to us, other users or providers. If we terminate a paid plan without cause, we will refund the unused part of prepaid web fees.
Sections 4 (as to orders already placed), 5, 6, 11 (as to the licence for the period it applied), 12 and 16 to 20 survive termination.
16. Disclaimer of warranties
To the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.
17. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law:
- we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunities, including the loss of a domain name, an auction or a backorder;
- we are not liable for the acts or omissions of registries, registrars, auction houses, marketplaces or other providers, or for charges they make to your accounts;
- our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or USD 100.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your statutory rights as a consumer.
18. Indemnity
You will defend and indemnify us against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms or of the law, from Your Content, or from orders and domain names you acquire or use through the Service, except to the extent caused by our own fault.
19. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. We will notify you of material changes by email or in the app at least 30 days before they take effect, unless a change is required by law or for security. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you do not agree, you may cancel and delete your account. The date at the top shows when these Terms last changed.
20. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the operator of the Service has its registered place of business, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts competent at that place, unless mandatory law gives you, as a consumer, the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence or to rely on the mandatory consumer protection rules of that country. Before starting proceedings, please contact us so we can try to resolve the matter informally.
21. General
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them in connection with a reorganisation or sale of the Service. Translations are provided for convenience; the English version prevails.
22. Contact
Questions about these Terms: [email protected].