About PendingDelete.net
PendingDelete.net is an MCP server for searching domains approaching deletion or recently released, with details such as drop times, registrars, and link metrics. Its tools are read-only and require no account or key.
Key features
- 01Search pending-delete and released domains
- 02Filter by name, extension, and date
- 03Filter by registration year and link metrics
- 04View drop times and domain details
- 05Export search results as tables and CSV
Use cases
- 01Find pending domains with a chosen extension
- 02Filter recently released domains by link metrics
- 03Check a domain's estimated or confirmed drop time
MCP support
The remote MCP server uses Streamable HTTP to expose two read-only tools, `search_domains` and `get_domain`, for filtering domain lists and retrieving details about individual names.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http net-pendingdelete https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp{"mcpServers":{"net-pendingdelete":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"net-pendingdelete":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"net-pendingdelete":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"net-pendingdelete":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEPendingDelete.net MCP server
Search the domain names about to drop, and the ones dropped recently, from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any app that speaks the Model Context Protocol.
https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp
Remote MCP over Streamable HTTP · read-only · no account, no key · Docs · PendingDelete.net
What it does
PendingDelete.net lists the domain names in pending delete (the last five days before a registry deletes a name and anyone can register it) across every extension it tracks, with each name's drop time, registrar, age and link figures. The MCP server puts those lists inside your AI assistant, with two tools.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_domains | Searches the lists with every filter of the site's advanced search, run by the same code. One status at a time: pending_delete (the default), available (released and not registered again), caught (released and registered again) or released (still being checked). Released names reach back 90 days. |
get_domain | One name's facts when it is on the lists: status, drop or release time and whether the drop time is confirmed, length, registrar, first registered, Linking Domains, Rank, which of its .com, .net and .org are registered, and its page. |
Both tools only read: nothing is registered, bought or changed.
An answer gives how many names match, a table of the names on that page, each linked to its page on PendingDelete.net, a link to the same search on the site, and a CSV of the whole list. Apps that read structured content get the same answer as JSON under an output schema.
The filters of search_domains
| Argument | Filter |
|---|---|
status | pending_delete, available, caught or released |
keyword, match | Text in the name before the dot: contains, starts_with, ends_with, exact or not_contains |
regex | A regular expression over the name before the dot, such as ^[a-z]{4}$ |
exclude | Up to five words to leave out |
letter_pattern | C a consonant, V a vowel, L any letter, N a digit: CVCV, LLLN, go-L |
min_length, max_length | Characters before the dot |
hyphens, numbers, idn | false leaves out names with hyphens, digits, or other alphabets (xn--) |
extensions | Such as ["com"] or ["com", "net", "org"]; every tracked extension when left out |
adjoining_registered | Keep names whose same name is registered now in .com, .net or .org |
drop_date_from, drop_date_to | The drop (or release) day: YYYY-MM-DD, yesterday, today or tomorrow, US Eastern |
confirmed_drop_times_only | Only drop times worked out from the registry's own record |
registrars | Up to ten, as the registry writes them (GoDaddy.com, LLC) |
registered_from_year, registered_to_year | The year the name was first registered |
min_linking_domains | At least 1, 10, 100 or 1,000 |
min_rank | At least 1 to 5 |
real_words, syllables | Everyday English words; 1, 2 or 3 syllables |
mens_names, womens_names, surnames | A first name at the start, or a last name |
sort, order | drop_date, name, length, linking_domains, rank, registered or adjoining; asc or desc |
limit, page | Names an answer (100 unless asked otherwise) and the page, through the first 10,000 |
Connect
Claude
On the web or in the desktop app: Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector. Name it PendingDelete.net, paste
https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp, and choose no sign-in. Turn it on for a chat from the + menu under
Connectors. On Team and Enterprise plans an Owner adds it for the organization first.
ChatGPT
In developer mode, on the plans that have it: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode, then Create app with the server URL and no authentication. In a chat, pick it from the + menu.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http pendingdelete https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp
Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json (every project) or .cursor/mcp.json (one project):
{
"mcpServers": {
"pendingdelete": { "url": "https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp" }
}
}
VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"pendingdelete": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp" }
}
}
Apps that only run local servers
Bridge it with mcp-remote:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pendingdelete": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.pendingdelete.net/mcp"]
}
}
}
Ask it
- Which .com names drop tomorrow that are real words of eight letters or fewer?
- Find available .com names released this week with at least 10 linking domains.
- Find pending delete .com names first registered before 2005 with at least 10 linking domains, best Rank first.
- Show the .com names dropping today whose .net and .org are both registered.
- Two-syllable .com names ending in "host", no hyphens or numbers.
- When does example.com drop, and is that time confirmed?
What the figures mean
- Drop time: when the registry is due to delete the name, in US Eastern time and UTC. It is confirmed when worked out from the registry's own record of when the name entered pending delete, and estimated otherwise. .com and .net drop in Verisign's daily batch; most other registries release each name at its own time (drop times).
- Linking Domains: how many other domains link to the name in Common Crawl's web graph.
- Rank: the name's place among every domain in that graph, by Common Crawl's harmonic-centrality ranking, as a score from 0 to 10 on a log scale: 10 × (1 − ln(place) ÷ ln(domains in the graph)). The best-connected domain is 10; place 1,000 of about 130 million is 6.3, place 1,000,000 is 2.6.
- Linking Domains and Rank are not Moz DA, Ahrefs DR or Open PageRank. A name nobody links to has neither figure.
Where the names come from
Names that left their zone file and that each registry's own answer (RDAP) puts in redemption or pending delete. A name that is simply registered is never listed, and nameservers are never given.
Limits
Per-minute limits keep the server quick for everyone; the docs page shows the current numbers. Over a limit, the assistant is told to wait a minute and try again.
Privacy and support
Calls are logged to keep the server running well; the privacy policy says what is kept and for how long. Questions or a problem: the contact form.
This repository
The server runs at the address above; this repository holds its documentation and its
server.json for the MCP Registry. The text and
configuration here are under the MIT license; the server and its data are PendingDelete.net's.
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