{
  "_meta": {
    "title": "Official domain-registrar MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers",
    "description": "Which domain registrars publish an official, first-party MCP server, whether it is read/write management or read-only search, and its endpoint, auth, method coverage and sandbox status.",
    "page": "https://best-domain-registrars.com/domain-registrar-mcp/",
    "last_verified": "2026-07-06",
    "grounded_in": {
      "dataset": "agent_capability_signals",
      "version": "2026.05",
      "source": "https://opendomaindata.org/datasets/agent-capability-signals",
      "publisher": "Open Domain Data",
      "note": "The official-MCP yes/no signal is grounded in this neutral dataset. Capability details are re-verified against each registrar's own MCP docs. The official-vs-community and management-vs-search framing is Best-Domain-Registrars' editorial interpretation."
    },
    "not_in_signals_dataset": [
      "namesilo",
      "hover"
    ],
    "counts": {
      "total": 9,
      "official": 2,
      "management": 1,
      "searchOnly": 1,
      "none": 7
    },
    "license": "Facts from Open Domain Data are CC BY 4.0. This compilation is published for reuse with attribution to best-domain-registrars.com."
  },
  "registrars": [
    {
      "registrar_id": "namesilo",
      "has_official_mcp": true,
      "kind": "management",
      "endpoint": "https://mcp.namesilo.com/rpc",
      "docs_url": "https://mcp.namesilo.com",
      "auth": "API key in X-API-KEY header",
      "methods": "80+ methods (full domain lifecycle)",
      "sandbox": true,
      "capabilities": [
        "Register, renew & transfer domains",
        "DNS record management",
        "WHOIS privacy control",
        "Email forwarding & portfolio management"
      ],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "The most capable registrar MCP in the set: an official, first-party JSON-RPC 2.0 server that wraps NameSilo's full 80+-method domain API, so an AI agent can register, renew, transfer and manage DNS and WHOIS privacy end to end — with a sandbox mode for safe testing before it touches a live account. The delegation trade-off is real: authentication is a single account API key passed in an X-API-KEY header, not a scoped, revocable per-agent token, so the credential an agent holds can do anything the account can.",
      "sources": [
        "https://mcp.namesilo.com",
        "https://www.namesilo.com/api-reference"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "godaddy",
      "has_official_mcp": true,
      "kind": "search-only",
      "endpoint": "https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/mcp",
      "docs_url": "https://developer.godaddy.com/mcp",
      "auth": "None — public data only",
      "methods": "Domain search + availability",
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [
        "Domain name search",
        "Availability checks"
      ],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "An official, read-only MCP served over streamable HTTP that answers domain-search and availability questions with no authentication, because it exposes only public data. By design it cannot register a domain, modify DNS or change any setting — GoDaddy's documentation states registration and management must be completed on godaddy.com. It is a discovery tool for agents, not a management one.",
      "sources": [
        "https://developer.godaddy.com/mcp"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "cloudflare-registrar",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "No official MCP for the registrar. Cloudflare ships MCP servers for other parts of its platform and its Registrar API is the most agent-ready in the set (scoped tokens, a published OpenAPI reference), but there is no first-party MCP that drives domain registration or management.",
      "sources": [
        "https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "porkbun",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": "Community/third-party MCP wrappers built on Porkbun's public API exist, but Porkbun does not publish an official one.",
      "note": "No official first-party MCP. Porkbun has a clean public REST API — including an unauthenticated pricing endpoint — and unofficial community MCP wrappers have been built on top of it, but nothing official is published by Porkbun.",
      "sources": [
        "https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3/documentation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "namecheap",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "No official MCP. Namecheap exposes a public API (with an IP-allowlisted key and a sandbox) but has not published a first-party MCP server for domain operations.",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/intro/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "dynadot",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": "An MCP built on Dynadot's API is referenced in Dynadot's community forums, but Dynadot does not document an official first-party MCP and its own API docs make no mention of one.",
      "note": "No official first-party MCP. Dynadot has a full REST API and its community has discussed MCP wrappers, but Dynadot itself does not publish or document an official MCP server.",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api",
        "https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api-commands"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "spaceship",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "No official MCP. Spaceship publishes a newer REST API documented per endpoint, but no first-party MCP server for domain operations.",
      "sources": [
        "https://docs.spaceship.dev/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "hover",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "No official MCP, and no public API to build one on: Hover (a Tucows retail brand) offers only a partner-program API, so agent-driven registration or management is not possible without a partnership.",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.hover.com/",
        "https://partners.hover.com/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "registrar_id": "squarespace-domains",
      "has_official_mcp": false,
      "kind": null,
      "endpoint": null,
      "docs_url": null,
      "auth": null,
      "methods": null,
      "sandbox": false,
      "capabilities": [],
      "community_wrapper_note": null,
      "note": "No official MCP, and none is possible: Squarespace Domains has no public domain API at all, so domains are managed only through the Squarespace dashboard.",
      "sources": [
        "https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/sections/360001172391-Domains"
      ]
    }
  ]
}