Check whether one or more domains are available to register. Read-only.

Availability is a question about the registry, not about your account, so this does NOT route by who holds the domain — it asks the first configured provider that can answer, or the one you name in provider. Route 53 cannot answer at all: it hosts DNS and does not sell domains.

Namecheap answers a whole batch in one call and returns four separate premium prices. GoDaddy's v3 check-availability takes one domain per request, so a batch of ten is ten requests against its quota, and its availability endpoint keeps a higher account threshold than the DNS API.

Get Namecheap's list price for one or more TLDs and an action (register / renew / transfer / reactivate). Distils users.getPricing: returns the per-year price tiers for each requested TLD. Note these are standard (non-premium) TLD prices — for premium domains use check_domain_availability, which returns premium pricing. Read-only.

List the domains in your Namecheap account with paging and filtering. Each entry summarises expiry, lock, auto-renew, WhoisGuard and whether the domain uses Namecheap DNS. Use get_domain_info for a full single-domain view. Read-only.

Get a coherent single view of one domain: registration + expiry dates, registrar-lock status, WhoisGuard/privacy state, and DNS provider / nameservers. Combines domains.getInfo with the registrar-lock lookup so you see everything in one call. Read-only.

Register (buy) a new domain. THIS SPENDS MONEY from the Namecheap account balance and is not reversible. You MUST pass confirm=true to proceed; without it the tool returns a dry-run describing the charge. Requires a full registrant contact (used for all contact roles unless overridden). ccTLDs frequently need extended attributes (e.g. .us needs RegistrantNexus + RegistrantPurpose; .eu, .ca, .co.uk, .de, .asia have their own) — pass them via extendedAttributes as raw Namecheap field names. Check availability/pricing first with check_domain_availability and confirm funds with get_account_balance.

Renew an existing, non-expired domain, extending its expiry. THIS SPENDS MONEY and needs confirm=true. If the domain has already EXPIRED, use reactivate_domain instead.

Reactivate a domain that has EXPIRED but is still within Namecheap's redemption/grace window. THIS SPENDS MONEY (reactivation can cost more than a normal renewal) and needs confirm=true. For domains that have not yet expired, use renew_domain.

Set the registrar lock on a domain. Locking protects against unauthorised transfers; you must UNLOCK before transferring a domain away. Idempotent — setting the state it is already in is a no-op.

List every DNS record for a domain. The provider is chosen by which one holds the domain — Namecheap, GoDaddy or Route 53 — unless you pass provider. domain is the registrable domain (example.com or example.co.uk); sub-domains appear in each record's name. Read-only.

On Route 53 a record SET with several values comes back as several rows sharing one id; they share a TTL and are written back together.

Change DNS records WITHOUT wiping the zone. This is the tool you almost always want. It reads the current records, applies your granular add/update/delete operations in memory, and writes the full merged set back — untouched records are preserved. Operations: add (name+type+address); update (matches name+type, optionally matchAddress to disambiguate; only provided fields change); delete (matches name+type, optionally matchAddress). If an operation would delete the LAST record, pass allowEmptyZone=true. Returns a before/after diff.

Read nonAtomicWarning on the result. On GoDaddy an edit is a delete followed by a create, because its v3 API has no record update: if the create fails the record is ABSENT, not stale. Namecheap and Route 53 apply an edit as one operation.

DANGER: overwrite the domain's complete record set with exactly the records you provide. Every existing record NOT in your list is permanently deleted, MX mail records included. Prefer modify_dns_records for everyday edits. Requires confirm=true; an empty record set additionally requires allowEmptyZone=true. Consider calling get_dns_records first to capture the current zone for rollback.

On Route 53 the zone's own SOA and apex NS are left alone regardless — Route 53 creates both with the hosted zone and rejects deleting either.

Show the nameservers for a domain. On Route 53 this is the hosted zone's apex NS set, which is what you give the registrar. GoDaddy's v3 API cannot read nameservers back, only replace them. Read-only.

Point a domain at nameservers. On Namecheap, mode=default resets it to Namecheap BasicDNS. IMPORTANT: moving nameservers moves DNS authority, so records held at the old provider stop taking effect. Route 53 cannot do this — a Route 53 zone's nameservers are set wherever the domain is registered.

List the email-forwarding rules for a domain (mailbox -> destination). Email forwarding only works while the domain uses Namecheap DNS. Read-only.

Configure email forwarding. Like DNS setHosts, Namecheap's setEmailForwarding is REPLACE-ALL, so this tool defaults to a safe merge: it reads existing rules, upserts the ones you provide (matched by mailbox), removes any you list in remove, and writes the full set back — untouched rules are preserved. Use mode=replace_all (with confirm=true) to overwrite every rule with exactly forwards.

Initiate an inbound domain transfer to Namecheap. THIS SPENDS MONEY (a transfer usually includes one year of renewal) and needs confirm=true. Before transferring you must, at the losing registrar: unlock the domain and obtain its EPP/auth code (pass it as eppCode; required for most gTLDs like .com/.net/.org). The domain must generally be >60 days old and not within 60 days of a prior transfer. Track progress with get_transfer_status.

Look up the status of an in-progress or completed inbound transfer by its TransferID (returned from transfer_domain). Maps Namecheap's numeric StatusID to a plain-English meaning and a coarse phase (pending / action_required / completed / canceled). Read-only.

Get the Namecheap account's funds: available balance (spendable now), account balance, and the funds required for upcoming auto-renewals within 90 days. Check this before register/renew/transfer — an empty balance is the usual cause of 'order creation failed'. Read-only.

List the WhoisGuard/domain-privacy subscriptions on the account, including which domain each is allotted to, its status (ENABLED/DISABLED) and expiry. Use set_domain_privacy to toggle a domain's privacy. Read-only.

Turn WhoisGuard/domain privacy on or off for a domain. The tool resolves the domain's WhoisGuard subscription ID automatically. Enabling requires a forwardedToEmail (where WHOIS contact mail is relayed). Idempotent.