Unable to create a domain or a subscription in Plesk: There are no available resources of this type (domains) left

Anton Kuznetsov

Updated January 13, 2026 18:51

Plesk for Windows Plesk for Linux kb: technical ABT: Group A

Applicable to:

Plesk for Linux
Plesk for Windows

It is not possible to migrate subscription, the following error appears:

PLESK_ERROR: Failed deployment of domain example.com

Execution of /opt/psa/admin/plib/api-cli/domain.php --create example.com -owner admin -do-not-apply-skeleton -notify false -guid b55020df-blya-4ecc-824e-2bdfb9dab685 -creation-date 2011-09-17 -ignore-nonexistent-options failed with return code 1.
Stderr is
An error occurred during domain creation: There are no available resources of this type (domains) left. Requested: 1; available: 0.
It is not possible to create a new subscription, the following error appears in Plesk:

PLESK_ERROR: Error: There are no available resources of this type (domains) left. Requested: 1; available: 0.

Cause

The issue is caused by Plesk license limitations. The limit of domains has been reached.

What domains are counted in the domain limit of a Plesk license

Resolution

Check the Plesk license via Tools & Settings > License Management .
Make sure that the number of domains does not reach limits. It can be done from the command line as follows:

Windows

C:\> "%plesk_dir%MySQL\bin\mysql.exe" -uadmin -p<plesk-admin-password> -P8306 -Dpsa -e "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM psa.domains WHERE parentDomainId = 0;"
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 6 |
+----------+

Linux

# MYSQL_PWD=`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` mysql -uadmin psa -e "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM psa.domains WHERE parentDomainId = 0;"
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 1 |
+----------+