NameScout

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

ProvidersBuilt by Brad Traversy

NameScout

Search Report Providers

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.

$Search mode

Package registries and distribution first

Domains and brand surfaces first

Package and GitHub collisions first

Marketplaces and publisher names first

Try a sample

Curious what a real report looks like? Pick one.

$redis $lodash $vidpipe $taillux $glintly $namescout

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Prefer the terminal?

Run NameScout from your shell.

Same checks, same scoring, terminal-pretty output. Zero install, no auth, just run it.

~/code

$ npx namescout-cli redis

Score 11 / 100 · Name collision risk

DOMAINS

✗ redis.com taken

✓ redis.dev available

PACKAGE REGISTRIES

✗ npm taken

...

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

Usable but watch it

71

mingit.com

domain · DNS records found

taken

npm

package · Exact npm package exists

taken

Docker Hub

distribution · Docker namespace exists

taken

VS Code

marketplace · Extension with same name exists

similar

GitHub org/user

code · Lookup returned HTTP 403

unknown

mingit.dev

domain · No DNS record found

available

Recommended actions

✓Buy mingit.dev first
✓Reserve PyPI package
✓Review GitHub namespace collision

Full report

Domains

mingit.com

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

mingit.dev

medium confidence · No DNS record found

available

mingit.io

medium confidence · No DNS record found

available

mingit.app

medium confidence · No DNS record found

available

mingit.ai

medium confidence · No DNS record found

available

mingit.co

medium confidence · No DNS record found

available

Package registries

npm

high confidence · Exact npm package exists

taken

PyPI

high confidence · Exact project name is clear

available

crates.io

high confidence · No exact crate found

available

RubyGems

high confidence · Gem name is clear

available

Packagist

high confidence · No vendor packages found

available

Code hosting

GitHub org/user

low confidence · Lookup returned HTTP 403

unknown

Marketplaces

VS Code

high confidence · Extension with same name exists

similar

Distribution

Docker Hub

high confidence · Docker namespace exists

taken

Homebrew

high confidence · No formula or cask found

available