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NAMESCOUT / HOSTED

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Check a name before you commit to it.

One search covers 7 domain endings and 26 platforms, from npm and PyPI to Bluesky and Substack. Domain verdicts come from the registry itself, so available means the name is unregistered.

How agents drive it What it checks All tools

namescout.app has no DNS record yet, so there is no app to open and no MCP endpoint answering. The screenshot is the real UI, and every number on this page is read off the code.

  • 7

    domain endings

  • 26

    platforms checked

  • 3

    MCP tools, no key

namescout.app
The NameScout homepage: a single search box that checks 7 domain endings and 26 platforms at once

Three tools. No key, no account.

Agents check names anonymously, with no key and no account.

Point a client at the endpoint and it answers. There is no token to create and no plan to be on, because there is no paid plan at all.

The endpoint starts answering when namescout.app does, and it stays anonymous when it gets there.

add the server one line

$ claude mcp add --transport http namescout https://namescout.app/api/mcp

  • check_domain

    The seven endings for one name.

  • check_social

    The 26 platforms for one handle.

  • check_name

    Domains and handles in one call.

One name, 33 checks.

Seven domain endings and 26 platforms, in one pass. When you are naming a project, the npm package name usually matters more than the Instagram handle, so the registries come first here.

Domain endings

7

Every check runs all seven. The list is the same every time, so you can put two names side by side and compare them directly.

.com.app.dev.io.net.org.co

Developer registries

6

npm, PyPI, crates.io, Docker Hub, RubyGems, Homebrew. For a library or a CLI, this is the group that decides the name.

Social handles

12

Nine mainstream handles, including X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub, and Reddit, plus Bluesky, Mastodon, and Telegram.

Creator platforms

6

Substack, Patreon, Gumroad, Linktree, Behance, Dribbble. These are where a name builds an audience.

Community

2

Discord and Slack, so the workspace name is settled before anyone prints stickers.

Available means the registry said so.

Plenty of checkers ask DNS and stop there. A parked domain and a domain with nothing but an MX record both look empty from DNS, and both are taken. So NameScout treats DNS as a first pass and goes to the registry for the verdict.

  1. 01 DNS first. A name with no records becomes a candidate.
  2. 02 RDAP second. NameScout asks the registry directly and takes its answer as the verdict.
  3. 03 If nothing answers, NameScout reports unknown and leaves it there.

Three verdicts

available
The registry has no record of it.
taken
Someone got there first.
unknown
Nobody would answer. NameScout says so and leaves it at that.

Where it will not pretend

  • .co has no RDAP service, so a .co verdict is DNS-only and weaker than the other six.
  • Reddit is flagged uncheckable on purpose. It always comes back unknown, and a link to the claim page does the useful work.
  • Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and personal LinkedIn sit behind bot walls. Best effort, and unknown when the wall wins.

Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to buy.

The web app needs no account at all. Sign in and the free tier carries 1,000 API calls a month. There is no Pro tier today, and no billing set up to sell one. NameScout is closed source and run by Anvil Nine, so there is nothing to self-host either.

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