DigMyName
The fastest domain search — or the second. Dispute it. Free, honest domain availability checks across 50+ TLDs with 6-registrar price comparison.
Links
Quick start
No install needed to try it — the site and the API are both live.
curl "https://api.digmyname.com/functions/v1/public-api/check?domain=acmeforge.io"
{
"result": {
"domain": "acmeforge.io",
"available": true,
"price_usd": 28.12,
"cheapest_registrar": { "name": "Porkbun", "reg_price_usd": 28.12 },
"buy_url": "https://porkbun.com/checkout/search?q=acmeforge.io"
}
}
Free, no API key, no account — 60 requests/minute/IP and 5,000 domains per UTC day/IP. Full docs: digmyname.com/api.
Want your LLM to call it directly instead? One line: claude mcp add domain-check -- npx -y domain-check-skills-mcp — see mcp/README.md.
What it does
DigMyName checks domain availability in real time across 50+ TLDs. Availability is cross-checked against two independent signals on every name — RDAP (resolved via the IANA bootstrap registry) and DNS-over-HTTPS (Cloudflare, Google and AdGuard, hedged) — with a third, Fastly Domain Research, brought in only where those two are not enough (an uncertain answer, a premium suspect, a brand-blocked label, the zones without public RDAP, and the name the visitor typed). When the signals disagree we show an honest Unverified state instead of guessing. For the popular extensions the visitor's browser asks the registry's RDAP server and DNS-over-HTTPS directly for the first answer, over connections opened while the name is still being typed; the edge re-checks every card and stays the authority. Prices are refreshed weekly from the registrars' own catalogs and pages.
On top of availability you get side-by-side registrar pricing for 6 registrars, including the renewal traps that first-year promo prices hide (a $1 registration that renews at $61 is not a deal). Everything is also exposed through a free, no-auth JSON API for agents, plus an MCP server so any LLM — Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Continue, Zed — can check domains directly.
Speed
Under 0.5 s to the first answer at the 95th percentile for a cold visitor — 386 ms from the US, 485 ms from the EU, 150 fresh browsers each, September 2026 · the full check with pricing lands in about half a second (median). Everyday numbers, not a lab result — the on-screen stopwatch is the live proof; your numbers vary by network, TLD and cache — see digmyname.com/speed.
Tech stack
- Vite
- React
- TypeScript
- shadcn/ui
- Tailwind CSS
- Supabase edge functions (Deno)
Development
The only requirement is having Node.js & npm installed — install with nvm.
# Step 1: Clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/seomarlboro/digmyname.git
# Step 2: Navigate to the project directory.
cd digmyname
# Step 3: Install the necessary dependencies.
npm i
# Step 4: Start the development server with auto-reloading and an instant preview.
npm run dev
Tests
npm test # vitest: frontend, route table, prerender, search lanes, browser lane
deno test -A supabase/functions/fetch-registrar-prices/parsers_test.ts # price-source parsers (fixtures from the real pages)
deno test -A supabase/functions/_shared/pipeline_test.ts # availability pipeline
Benchmark
scripts/bench/first-answer.mjs measures what a cold visitor sees on the stopwatch: each visitor is a fresh browser that loads the home page, pauses, types a name nobody has checked and stops when the first verdict paints. It needs Playwright (npm i playwright && npx playwright install chromium in any scratch folder, then node first-answer.mjs); the bench-first-answer GitHub Actions workflow runs the same script from a US runner on demand. Numbers quoted on the site come from these runs, with date, location, sample size and percentile.
License
MIT. The mcp/ package is published under MIT as well.
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