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

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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

Near matches

Similar names already exist

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

tabula-py
PyPI
Simple wrapper for tabula-java, read tables from PDF into DataFrame
pytabula
PyPI
A minimal Python table extension

Report

Name collision risk

12

tabula.com

domain · DNS records found

taken

tabula.dev

domain · DNS records found

taken

npm

package · Exact npm package exists

taken

PyPI

package · Exact PyPI project exists

taken

Homebrew

distribution · Homebrew cask exists

taken

VS Code

marketplace · Publisher namespace exists

taken

Recommended actions

✓Check alternate domains for tabula
✓Reserve Packagist package
✓Review GitHub namespace collision

Full report

Domains

tabula.com

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

tabula.dev

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

tabula.io

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

tabula.app

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

tabula.ai

high confidence · DNS records found

taken

tabula.co

low confidence · No decisive DNS answer

unknown

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 · No vendor packages found

available

Code hosting

GitHub org/user

low confidence · Lookup returned HTTP 403

unknown

Marketplaces

VS Code

high confidence · Publisher namespace exists

taken

Distribution

Docker Hub

low confidence · Rate limited

unknown

Homebrew

high confidence · Homebrew cask exists

taken