GoDaddy

Domain suggestions and bulk availability checks for up to 1000 domains.

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What the GoDaddy connector does

The GoDaddy MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client search for domain names inside a conversation. Two read-only tools do the work: one generates suggestions from a keyword or a business description, the other checks availability for up to 1000 domains at once. No sign-in, no API key. It cannot buy anything.

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GoDaddy tools (2)

  • domains_suggestRead-only

    Generate domain name suggestions based on keywords, seed domains, or business descriptions. Returns an interactive widget with clickable domain links for clients that support HTML rendering (browsers, web-based AI assistants), with automatic fallback to formatted text for other clients. IMPORTANT: Always display the registration links from the response to the user - each domain has a direct GoDaddy registration URL that must be shown.

  • domains_check_availabilityRead-only

    Check if domain names are available for registration. Works with single domains or lists of multiple domains. Returns formatted results with availability status and registration options ready for display. IMPORTANT: Always display the registration links from the response to the user - each domain has a direct GoDaddy registration URL that must be shown.

Read from the server on 2026-08-18, including each tool's own safety annotations.

Limits

  • It cannot buy, register or change anything. GoDaddy's documentation states the MCP server cannot register domains, modify DNS records, transfer domains, update account settings or make purchases. Both tool annotations agree: readOnlyHint: true, destructiveHint: false.
  • Availability and pricing go stale fast. GoDaddy's own limitations section warns that both can change quickly and tells integrators to re-check before sending a user to purchase. Treat any result older than the current turn as provisional.
  • No pricing comes back through these tools. Neither schema has a price field and neither description mentions cost. What you get is availability plus a registration link; the price is on GoDaddy's site.
  • Public data only. The connector cannot see your GoDaddy account, your existing domains, your DNS zones or your renewals. It does not accept account credentials at all, so there is no configuration that would unlock those.
  • Rate limited, with no published figure. GoDaddy's MCP documentation records the limit as enforced per client IP address and says the details are "TBD as service scales". No number is published for the MCP endpoint specifically, so build for HTTP 429 rather than for a known ceiling.
  • The bulk parameter is a string, not an array. domains_check_availability takes one comma-separated string of up to 1000 domains. A client that assumes a JSON array from the plural name will fail validation, which is the same trap the stale singular check_domain name sets.
  • Prompts are declared but empty. There is nothing to invoke today. Recorded here as a limit because "the capability exists" and "there is something in it" are different claims.
  • The one resource carries no data. The widget is a rendering shell that fetches its real code from GoDaddy's CDN, and it is inert in a client that does not implement the OpenAI Apps SDK extension. Those clients get the text fallback the tool descriptions describe.
  • Need writes? It is a different product. GoDaddy points agents that must purchase or manage DNS at its separate gddy CLI agent skill, which runs on your machine under your own authenticated credentials. That is not this connector and it is not credential-free.

Frequently asked questions

Does the GoDaddy MCP server need a GoDaddy account or API key?

No. We opened an anonymous handshake against the endpoint on 2026-08-18 and the server returned both tool definitions with no credential. We then called a read-only tool with empty arguments and got a schema validation error rather than an authentication challenge, which proves the request cleared any gate. GoDaddy's own documentation states the tools use public domain data and do not accept account credentials.

Why does the connector directory list tool names the server does not have?

The listing is stale, and here nothing at all matches. Anthropic's directory names two tools and the live server returns two, so the counts agree, but zero of the names overlap. The live names are domains_suggest and domains_check_availability. Anyone who copied check_domain or suggest_domains from the listing is calling a tool that does not exist on this server.

Can the GoDaddy MCP server actually register a domain for me?

No. GoDaddy's documentation states the MCP server cannot register domains, modify DNS records, transfer domains, update account settings or make purchases. Both tools are annotated readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false. Registration still happens on godaddy.com. For purchase and DNS management from an agent, GoDaddy points to its separate gddy CLI agent skill instead.

How many domains can I check for availability in one call?

Up to 1000 per request. The domains_check_availability schema describes a single comma-separated string rather than an array, and the tool routes automatically to an exact search for one domain or a bulk search for two or more. Each entry must include its TLD extension. The companion suggestion tool is capped separately at 100 results, defaulting to 40.

Does the GoDaddy connector have prompts I can invoke?

No, but the distinction matters. The server declares a prompts capability during initialize and then answers prompts/list with an empty array, which is not the same as not offering prompts at all. There is nothing to invoke today, yet the capability is wired, so prompts could appear without a protocol change. Anthropic's directory also records zero prompt names.

What is the resource the GoDaddy MCP server serves?

A rendering widget, not data. The server declares a resources capability and resources/list returns exactly one entry, Domain Search Results, at ui://widget/domains-search.html with MIME type text/html+skybridge. We read it on 2026-08-18: a short HTML shell that loads a bundled stylesheet and script from GoDaddy's CDN. It contains no domain data itself.

Are the two GoDaddy tools safe to auto-approve?

Both are annotated readOnlyHint true, destructiveHint false and openWorldHint false, and GoDaddy's documentation independently records the server as non-destructive and idempotent. Neither tool spends money or changes account state. The one caution is not safety but freshness: GoDaddy warns that availability and pricing change quickly, so re-check before acting on a result.

Sources

  • Live initialize, tools/list, prompts/list, resources/list, resources/templates/list and resources/read handshake against https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/mcp — 2026-08-18. One unauthenticated tools/call was made to the read-only domains_check_availability tool with empty arguments, purely to observe the auth gate; it returned a schema validation error, so the tool did not execute and no domain lookup was performed. · retrieved 2026-08-18
  • GoDaddy — GoDaddy MCP server — https://developer.godaddy.com/en/docs/api-users/mcp (fetched 2026-08-18). Anthropic's directory publishes this connector's documentation URL as https://developer.godaddy.com/mcp, which returns · retrieved 2026-08-18
  • GoDaddy — Agent skill for gddy — https://developer.godaddy.com/en/docs/api-users/cli/agent-skill (fetched 2026-08-18) · retrieved 2026-08-18
  • GoDaddy — Developer Platform llms.txt machine index — https://developer.godaddy.com/llms.txt (fetched 2026-08-18) · retrieved 2026-08-18
  • GoDaddy — Privacy Policy — https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/privacy-policy. Listed as this connector's privacy policy in the directory snapshot (2026-08-16) and linked but not read: www.godaddy.com refuses our client at the edge, returning HTTP 403 to every path including /robots.txt. No claim on this page is drawn from it. The privacy statements above come from the developer documentation instead. · retrieved 2026-08-16
  • Anthropic connector directory — https://claude.ai/directory/a1d0551d-c567-4975-91fc-7ced9e819421 (snapshot 2026-08-16) · retrieved 2026-08-16

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