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Check domain availability across 600+ TLDs on Namecheap with pricing and purchase links

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Install namecheap in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "namecheap-api-user",
      "description": "NAMECHEAP_API_USER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "namecheap-api-key",
      "description": "NAMECHEAP_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "namecheap-username",
      "description": "NAMECHEAP_USERNAME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "namecheap-client-ip",
      "description": "NAMECHEAP_CLIENT_IP",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "namecheap": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@birdmania1/namecheap-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NAMECHEAP_API_USER": "${input:namecheap-api-user}",
        "NAMECHEAP_API_KEY": "${input:namecheap-api-key}",
        "NAMECHEAP_USERNAME": "${input:namecheap-username}",
        "NAMECHEAP_CLIENT_IP": "${input:namecheap-client-ip}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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