Pp Domain Goat

Domain Goat — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the domain-goat-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install domain-goat --cli-only
   

2. Verify: domain-goat-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/developer-tools/domain-goat/cmd/domain-goat-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for domain-goat when you need to identify (not transact) domains worth registering — bulk-checking a name list across many TLDs, generating brandable variants, scoring candidates, watching for drops, comparing 5-year true cost across TLDs, or driving any of those workflows from an agent via MCP. Skip it if you already know which domain you want and just need to buy it — that's a registrar's job.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Local state that compounds

• shortlist promote — Promote the top-N candidates from a list into a finalist sub-list ranked by combined score, price, and availability.

  When an agent needs to converge on a buyable shortlist, this collapses 'fetch scores, fetch prices, fetch availability, sort, persist' into one deterministic call.

  domain-goat-pp-cli shortlist promote --list ai-startup --top 10 --by combined --agent
  

• budget — Filter candidates whose 5-year total cost (registration + 4 renewals) is under your ceiling, sorted ascending.

  Avoid the $12-year-1 / $4,800-renewal trap before falling in love with a name.

  domain-goat-pp-cli budget --list ai-startup --max-annual-cost 50 --years 5 --available-only
  

• compare — One row per domain with score, length, TLD prestige, cross-registrar price, RDAP status, and drop flag.

  Lets an agent or user finalize a shortlist in one command instead of cross-referencing 5 tabs.

  domain-goat-pp-cli compare kindred.io kindred.ai kindred.studio --json --select status,price,score
  

• why-killed — Show why a domain is no longer on the active shortlist: status, score, notes, tag history, last price.

  Agency teams kill the same name twice in a sprint without this — and an agent re-suggesting a killed name burns user trust.

  domain-goat-pp-cli why-killed kindred.studio --json
  

• tld-affinity — Given a seed keyword, rank TLDs by suffix-semantics fit, historical availability rate in local history, and price tier.

  Helps an agent pick generative TLDs before running expensive permutation passes.

  domain-goat-pp-cli tld-affinity kindred --top 10 --json
  

Reachability + persistence

• drops timeline — Time-axis view of every watched domain hitting pendingDelete/redemptionPeriod, filtered by brandability score and TLD.

  Drop-catchers and brand investors want to know 'what's queued for next week that's worth bidding on?' This answers it.

  domain-goat-pp-cli drops timeline --days 30 --min-score 7 --tld io,ai --agent
  

• pricing-arbitrage — Rank TLDs by renewal-delta (year-1 trap risk) or by prestige-to-price ratio.

  Helps users and agents avoid TLDs where year-2 pricing destroys the deal.

  domain-goat-pp-cli pricing-arbitrage --by renewal-delta --top 20 --agent
  

• drop-bid-window — Compute the exact UTC re-release window for a domain in pendingDelete (RDAP event + 5-day grace).

  Drop-catchers need minute-level timing; this replaces hand-parsed WHOIS regex.

  domain-goat-pp-cli drop-bid-window expiring.io --json
  

Command Reference

Availability & lookup

• check — Bulk availability (RDAP → WHOIS → DNS fallback).
• rdap — RDAP lookup via IANA bootstrap.
• whois — WHOIS port-43 with parsed output.
• dns — DNS lookups (A/AAAA/NS/MX/SOA).
• cert — Inspect the TLS certificate for a domain.

Generation & scoring

• gen <suggest|mix|affix|blend|hack|rhyme> — Offline brandable-name generators.
• similar — Typosquat / dnstwist-style variations.
• score — Brandability score (length, syllables, dictionary, TLD prestige).
• socials — Social-handle availability across common platforms.

Shortlists & comparison

• lists <create|add|show|list|annotate|kill> — Manage candidate shortlists.
• shortlist promote — Top-N candidates into a finalist sub-list.
• compare — Side-by-side row per domain.
• why-killed — Audit why a domain left the active list.
• budget — Filter by 5-year true cost.

Drops & watching

• drops timeline — Time-axis view of pendingDelete / redemptionPeriod.
• drop-bid-window — Exact UTC re-release window.
• watch <add|run|list|remove> — Periodic re-check + status persistence.

Pricing & TLDs

• pricing <sync|show|compare> — Porkbun TLD pricing snapshots.
• pricing-arbitrage — Rank TLDs by renewal-delta or prestige-value.
• tlds <sync|list|get> — IANA RDAP bootstrap table.
• tld-affinity — Best-fit TLDs for a seed keyword.
• namecheap — Optional Namecheap adapter (requires creds).

Local data

• sync — Sync API data to local SQLite.
• import — Import JSONL via API create/upsert.

Agent & utility

• doctor — Auth + connectivity check.
• agent-context — Structured JSON describing this CLI.
• which — Resolve capability → command.
• api — Browse endpoints by interface.
• workflow — Compound multi-step workflows.
• profile — Save and apply named flag sets.
• feedback — Record CLI feedback locally.

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

domain-goat-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Friday brand pitch — 200 names → 20 finalists

# 1. Generate, filter, score.
domain-goat-pp-cli gen suggest --seeds-file seeds.txt --tlds com,io,ai,studio --count 200 --available-only --max-renewal 80 --json > /tmp/candidates.json

# 2. Persist the finalists into a shortlist (positional args, not stdin).
domain-goat-pp-cli lists create brand-sprint
domain-goat-pp-cli lists add brand-sprint $(jq -r '.results[].fqdn' /tmp/candidates.json | head -50) --tags generated

# 3. Promote the top 20 by combined ranking.
domain-goat-pp-cli shortlist promote --list brand-sprint --top 20 --by combined --json

Generate, filter, persist, rank — Friday deck-ready output in under a minute.

Drop-catch worth-bidding-on hunt

domain-goat-pp-cli drops timeline --days 14 --min-score 7 --tld com,io --json --select fqdn,drop_at,score,price

Two weeks of upcoming drops, score-filtered, agent-narrow output.

Five-year true-cost shortlist

domain-goat-pp-cli budget --list ai-startup --max-annual-cost 50 --years 5 --agent --select fqdn,total_5yr,renewal_price

Cuts the $12-year-1 / $4,800-renewal trap before you fall in love with a name.

Why did we kill this one?

domain-goat-pp-cli why-killed kindred.studio --json

FTS5 over notes + tags + last RDAP/pricing snapshot — recovers institutional memory weeks later.

Agent-friendly compare

domain-goat-pp-cli compare kindred.io kindred.ai kindred.studio --agent --select fqdn,available,price,score,drop_flag,registrar_status

Dotted-path --select keeps the agent's context tight — each row is ~80 bytes instead of the full RDAP envelope.

Auth Setup

No authentication required.

Run domain-goat-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

• Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr

• Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:

  domain-goat-pp-cli compare kindred.io kindred.ai --agent --select fqdn,status,price,score
  

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available

• Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag

• Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

domain-goat-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
domain-goat-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
domain-goat-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at ~/.domain-goat-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless DOMAIN_GOAT_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or DOMAIN_GOAT_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

domain-goat-pp-cli profile save briefing --json --compact
domain-goat-pp-cli --profile briefing compare kindred.io kindred.ai
domain-goat-pp-cli profile list --json
domain-goat-pp-cli profile show briefing
domain-goat-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

1. Empty, help, or --help → show domain-goat-pp-cli --help output
2. Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
3. Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

claude mcp add domain-goat-pp-mcp -- domain-goat-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which domain-goat-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
2. Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
3. Execute with the --agent flag:

   domain-goat-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: domain-goat-pp-cli <command> --help.