Agent readiness · Domain registration and DNS
namecheap.com
4 of 8 measurable points under formula 9.2, measured on 2026-08-12. 15 checks exist; each is one HTTP request with a published rule, so every sentence below can be rerun and argued with. 6 of them could not be measured from where we ask, and those are left out of the denominator rather than counted as failures.
A · Discovery
- FAILAnswers an agent user-agentAnswered 403 to LetAgentsIn/1.0 (+https://letagentsin.com/methodology) with a JavaScript challenge from your edge, so no agent reaches the site at all
- FAILllms.txt publishedNo llms.txt at any of the 3 locations probed
- UNMEASUREDDocs readable without JavaScriptUnmeasurable: no documentation page could be found to readLink your documentation from your home page or list it in llms.txt.
- PASSOn-demand agents not blockedNo on-demand agent is blocked
- N/APaths robots.txt points at answerrobots.txt names no concrete path, only patterns or nothing, so there is no claim to check
- PASSNo punishing crawl delayNo Crawl-delay applies to the agents we check
B · Agent entry
- UNMEASUREDAgent entry pointUnmeasurable: 5 of the 9 known agent entry paths answered with a refusal rather than a file or a 404, so what you publish there is not something we measuredLet ordinary HTTP reach these paths and this becomes measurable.
- PASSOAuth dynamic client registrationregistration_endpoint published, but none of the 2 advertised grants (authorization_code, refresh_token) finishes without a person at a browser
- PASSMCP surfaceLive MCP endpoint at https://mcp.namecheap.com/mcp, answered 401 with an auth challenge
C · Registration
- UNMEASUREDNo CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLUnmeasurable: the signup form at https://namecheap.com/signup is not in the server HTML, so its gates are not eitherServer-render the form, or tell us the endpoint it posts to, and the gates become visible to us and to an agent.
- UNMEASUREDSignup reachable without a browserUnmeasurable: https://namecheap.com/signup answers 403 to an agent and 403 to a Chrome user-agent, so nothing gets in from here and the difference we test for cannot be seenNothing for you to do here. It becomes measurable from a network your edge admits.
D · Provisioning
- UNMEASUREDProgrammatic key provisioningUnmeasurable: we could not read a single documentation page, so there was nothing to look inLink your API reference from your docs index or from llms.txt and this becomes measurable.
- UNMEASUREDFree tier or no-card trial stated in textUnmeasurable: no pricing page could be fetchedLink a pricing page from your home page, or list one in llms.txt.
E · Integration
- FAILTyped SDK on the registrynode-vault-client ships without bundled types, matched from the registry by who publishes it rather than by a link on your site
- FAILMachine-readable API descriptionNo OpenAPI spec at the 5 usual paths, none declared by https://www.namecheap.com, and no markdown negotiationPoint at your spec from your docs page with rel="service-desc" and an agent finds it without guessing.
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The failures here are the kind nobody notices. An edge rule that starts refusing agents changes nothing a person sees in a browser, so the first sign is usually an integration that quietly stopped working. We rescan weekly and write only when a verdict moves.
This page is the newest scan we hold for namecheap.com and changes when we rescan. It is not a judgement of the product: we measure whether an unattended run can get through, not whether the thing is any good. The whole corpus is published as JSON and CSV.