Pp Domain Goat

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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