# List market auction venues

`GET https://api.unique.domains/v1/market/auctions/venues`

The seven auction venues with their verified rules and today's counts.

Each venue's currency, listing kinds, close, payment and bidder rules and first-year rule per kind, each with the day it was verified, plus the venue's line of today's pulse. Catalog order.

- Access: No key. Limited per address; a key adds the paid fields.
- Billing: One call.
- Formats: JSON
- API: Domain Market API

## Request

| Field | Type | Needs | Where | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `fields` | string | Optional | Query | Comma-separated top-level keys to keep; an unknown key answers 400 `unsupported_field`. |

## Sample request

```bash
curl -X GET "https://api.unique.domains/v1/market/auctions/venues"
```

## Response

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | Auction venue id (`GET /meta/enums` names each). |
| `label` | string |  |
| `currency` | string |  |
| `kinds` | string[] |  |
| `closeRule` | object \| null |  |
| `paymentRule` | object \| null |  |
| `bidderRule` | object \| null |  |
| `firstYear` | object |  |
| `today` | object \| null |  |

## Errors

| Code | Status | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [`rate_limited`](https://unique.domains/api/problems/rate_limited) | 429 | Too many requests |
| [`internal`](https://unique.domains/api/problems/internal) | 500 | Unexpected error |

## Example answer

200, application/json

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "dynadot",
      "label": "Dynadot",
      "currency": "USD",
      "kinds": [
        "expired",
        "user"
      ],
      "closeRule": {
        "value": "A bid in the last 5 minutes adds 5 minutes, with no limit.",
        "verifiedOn": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "paymentRule": {
        "value": "48 hours for an expired auction, 3 days for a user auction.",
        "verifiedOn": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "bidderRule": {
        "value": "$5 of account spending first; a 10% deposit for bids of $2,000 or more.",
        "verifiedOn": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "firstYear": {
        "expired": {
          "value": {
            "registrationIncluded": false,
            "flatFee": 0
          },
          "verifiedOn": "2026-10-08"
        }
      },
      "today": {
        "closing": 2100,
        "withBid": 310,
        "medianBidUsd": 40
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "asOf": "2026-11-05T08:00:00Z",
    "cursor": null,
    "limit": null
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.unique.domains/v1/market/auctions/venues",
    "next": null,
    "register": null,
    "product": null,
    "dataset": null
  }
}
```

API status: https://uniquedomains.instatus.com

Full reference: https://unique.domains/api