Name.ai MCP Server

ai.namePublished by name.aiOfficial publisherv1.0.1Updated Oct 24, 2026

Domain availability search, WHOIS lookup, TLD pricing and registry rules from name.ai. Read-only.

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Overview

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A remote, read-only MCP server from name.ai that lets an assistant check domain availability, look up WHOIS records, and get TLD pricing and registration rules.

What you can do
Check whether a domain and its common alternate TLDs are available, with aftermarket buy-now prices hidden unless authorized by name.ai's API layer (search_domain). Look up WHOIS/RDAP registration details such as registrar, registrant, dates and nameservers (whois_lookup). Get current USD prices for new registration, transfer-in, renewal or restore on a TLD (tld_registration_price). Get registry policy for a TLD: allowed registration periods, organization requirement, allowed registrant countries and nameserver rules (tld_requirements).
When to use it
Useful when you are researching or choosing a domain name and want availability, ownership and pricing facts pulled into the conversation without leaving the assistant. Also handy for checking registry policy before registering or transferring a domain.
Requirements
A remote streamable-http endpoint; no authentication, API key or environment variables are declared for clients. The server itself calls name.ai's public API, and WHOIS lookups are rate limited to 10 per day per caller IP.
Before you install
Read-only, but WHOIS lookups share the server's egress IP, so the daily limit is shared across all users of this endpoint. Aftermarket buy-now prices are hidden unless authorized. Pricing returned is name.ai's own registration pricing, not marketplace pricing. Domain queries are sent to name.ai's API.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Name.ai MCP Server in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/ai.name%2Fnameai-mcp/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "name-ai": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.name.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

nameai-mcp

A remote MCP server exposing a handful of name.ai's public, no-auth-required APIs as tools: domain search/availability, WHOIS lookup, TLD registration pricing, and TLD requirements. See src/nameai_mcp/server.py for the tool definitions and src/nameai_mcp/nameai_client.py for the HTTP client that talks to name.ai.

Endpoints

  • GET /health — health check.
  • POST /mcp (and GET /mcp for the SSE stream) — the MCP streamable-http endpoint. This is the URL an MCP client/host connects to.

Configuration

  • NAMEAI_API_BASE_URL — base URL of the name.ai API this server calls. Defaults to https://name.ai.
  • HOST / PORT — bind address for the server itself. Default 0.0.0.0:8000.

Local development

sh
uv syncuv run uvicorn nameai_mcp.app:app --reload

Docker

sh
docker build -t nameai-mcp .docker run -p 8000:8000 nameai-mcp

The image runs nameai-mcp (the main() entry point in src/nameai_mcp/__init__.py), which reads HOST/PORT from the environment — pass -e PORT=... if your platform injects a different port.

Deploying

Any host that can run the Docker image works. It is deployed through Coolify on the Hetzner server and served at https://mcp.name.ai/mcp (streamable-http), with Traefik terminating TLS. The original hostname, https://nameai-mcp.h.namekart.com/mcp, still routes to the same container, so client configs written against it keep working.

mcp.name.ai is a DNS-only A record to the Hetzner box. It exists because scanners and MCP tooling look for a server at mcp.<domain> instead of reading the URL out of a manifest — ora's scanner was watched, in this container's own access log, never dialling the manifest's mcpUrl during a scan. Adding a hostname needs two things besides DNS: the domain on the Coolify app, and the host appended to MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS, without which the SDK's DNS-rebinding guard answers it with 421.

The server calls the public API at NAMEAI_API_BASE_URL, default https://name.ai. Since name.ai moved to Hetzner that resolves to the same host this container runs on, so the calls leave the container, reach the host's own public IP, and come back in through Traefik. That hairpin works here and is left in place deliberately: talking to the API exactly the way an outside client would is the point of this server.

Being reachable isn't the same as being discovered — and that part is done. name.ai advertises this server in four places:

  • https://name.ai/.well-known/mcp.json — manifest
  • https://name.ai/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — server card
  • https://name.ai/llms.txt — in both the endpoint list and the tool guidance
  • the MCP Registry, namespace ai.name, domain-verified

All four live in the nameaiv1 repo. If the deployed URL changes, they change with it — otherwise agents keep being pointed at the old one.

Source: README.md at commit 1f6e737

Tools

4

search_domain

Check whether a domain is available and, for the same label, whether its common alternate TLDs are too (e.g. querying "acme.com" also returns "acme.ai", "acme.io", ...). Backed by POST /api/domain/search — public, no auth required. Buy-now (aftermarket/marketplace) prices are hidden unless you're authenticated (see AUTH.md at name.ai for how to get a token) — an unauthenticated call only sees new-registration pricing for a domain that's simply unregistered. Pass a valid OAuth access token as this call's Authorization header and it's forwarded automatically. Args: domain: A domain name to check, e.g. "example.ai". include_alternates: When true (default), also return sibling TLDs for the same label. When false, only the exact domain is returned.

Parametersdomainrequiredinclude_alternates

whois_lookup

Look up WHOIS/RDAP registration details for a domain: registrar, registrant, creation/expiration dates, nameservers. Backed by POST /api/tools/whois — public, no auth required, but rate limited by name.ai to 10 lookups per day per caller IP. Since every MCP call shares this server's egress IP, that quota is pooled across all of this MCP server's callers, not per end user. Args: domain: A domain name to look up, e.g. "example.com".

Parametersdomainrequired

tld_registration_price

Get the current USD price for a domain-lifecycle operation on a TLD (new registration, transfer-in, renewal, or restore from redemption). Backed by GET /api/pricing/tld — public, no auth required. This is name.ai's own registration pricing, not an aftermarket/marketplace price, so it is never gated by sign-in status. Args: tld: The TLD without a leading dot, e.g. "ai" or "com". operation: One of "register", "transfer", "renew", "restore".

Parameterstldrequiredoperation

tld_requirements

Get registration requirements for a TLD: allowed registration period range, whether an organization is required, allowed registrant countries, nameserver rules, and similar registry policy. Backed by GET /api/tlds/{tld}/metadata — public, no auth required. Args: tld: The TLD without a leading dot, e.g. "ai" or "io".

Parameterstldrequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.1LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

90% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts

    Declare a license in the repository or the registry entry.

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