# name.com Core API

> Probe-verified (tier 2 of 3). Last checked 2026-08-23. 4 of 5 capability checks passed.

- host: docs.name.com
- url: https://docs.name.com/
- category: domain management api
- type: documentation
- language: en

## Probe-verified · tier 2 of 3

Probed live on 2026-08-23 against rubric v1. 4 of 5 checks passed.

- PASS — Markdown negotiation
- PASS — Markdown twin at a predictable URL
- PASS — llms.txt
- fail — API catalog
- PASS — MCP server answers

MCP tools (from tools/list on 2026-08-23, served from namecom.main-kill-isr.mintlify.me): search_name_com_core_api, query_docs_filesystem_name_com_core_api, submit_feedback

## Unverified actions

Read from the page's own content, with the wording each was drawn from. Inference is kept separate from tested facts; an agent completing the action is tier 3.

- **download** — "Download our latest OpenAPI specification" → `https://namedotcom-cdn.name.tools/api-info/namecom.api.yaml`
- **read** — "Find answers to common questions" → `https://docs.name.com/resources/faq`
- **read** — "Track API updates and changes" → `https://docs.name.com/api/v1/changelog`
- **read** — "Learn how to authenticate and make your first API call" → `https://docs.name.com/guides/getting-started`
- **read** — "Understand the API structure, environments, and key features" → `https://docs.name.com/api/v1/overview`
- **read** — "TypeScript, Go, and PHP clients — Python coming soon" → `https://docs.name.com/sdks`
- **read** — "Search → Register → Manage" → `https://docs.name.com/guides/quickstart`

## Summary

Documentation for name.com Core API providing domain management integration for developers and businesses.

## Context

2 sites in this index share the category "domain management api"; 1 are transactional.

## How we grade

- tier 1 — **Declared**: The site says agents are welcome in its robots.txt. A permission, not a capability.
- tier 2 — **Probe-verified** (this site): We fetched the site and tested each signal ourselves. Dated, repeatable, re-checked on a schedule.
- tier 3 — **Behaviourally verified**: An agent completed the action end to end — booked, bought, submitted — and it worked.

## About this record

Known-Good probes sites live and publishes what was tested and when.
Method: https://knowngood.sh/about.md · Rubric: https://knowngood.sh/benchmark