NameScout

A practical name availability check across the registries you actually publish to.

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NameScout

NameScout

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Live across 12+ registries

Check the name before you start the repo.

Search domains, package registries, code hosts, and plugin marketplaces from one practical report. No hype. Just the collisions that matter.

Package registries and distribution first
Domains and brand surfaces first
Package and GitHub collisions first
Marketplaces and publisher names first
~/codenpm →
$ npx namescout-cli redis
Score 11 / 100 · Name collision risk
Domains
✗ redis.com taken
✓ redis.dev available
Package registries
✗ npm taken
...
Prefer the terminal? Same checks, no install.

Provider coverage

Obscure enough to be useful.

Live checks across the registries developers actually publish to. Two more on the way.

Domains
npm
PyPI
GitHub
crates.io
RubyGems
Packagist
Docker Hub
Homebrew
VS Code
Chrome Web StoreSoon
ObsidianSoon

Report

Name collision risk

14

inspector.com

domain · DNS records found

taken

inspector.dev

domain · DNS records found

taken

npm

package · Exact npm package exists

taken

PyPI

package · Exact PyPI project exists

taken

GitHub org/user

code · Lookup returned HTTP 403

unknown

Docker Hub

distribution · Rate limited

unknown

Recommended actions

  • ✓Check alternate domains for inspector
  • ✓Pick a package-name variant
  • ✓Review GitHub namespace collision

Full report

Domains

inspector.com

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

inspector.dev

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

inspector.io

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

inspector.app

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

inspector.ai

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

inspector.co

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

Package registries

npm

high confidence · Exact npm package exists

taken

PyPI

high confidence · Exact PyPI project exists

taken

crates.io

high confidence · Exact crate exists

taken

RubyGems

high confidence · Exact gem exists

taken

Packagist

high confidence · 1 package under vendor

taken

Code hosting

GitHub org/user

low confidence · Lookup returned HTTP 403

unknown

Marketplaces

VS Code

medium confidence · No matching publisher or extension

available

Distribution

Docker Hub

low confidence · Rate limited

unknown

Homebrew

high confidence · No formula or cask found

available

Near matches

Similar names already exist

Even when your exact name is free, these are close enough to cause confusion.

  • @unocss/inspector

    npm

    The inspector UI for UnoCSS

  • @rexxars/react-json-inspector

    npm

    React JSON inspector component

  • @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

    npm

    Model Context Protocol inspector

  • @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte-inspector

    npm

    A [Svelte](https://svelte.dev) inspector plugin for [Vite](https://vitejs.dev).

  • py-inspector

    PyPI

    Possibilita a criação de testes para PEP8 e PyLint que serão executados com nose

  • pyinspector

    PyPI

    A module to easely run quality pipeline for python project

  • python-inspector

    PyPI

    python-inspector is is a collection of utilities to collect PyPI package metadata and resolve packages dependencies.

  • inspector-python

    PyPI

    Real-time Code Execution Monitoring of Python applications.

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