Practical accounts of building a domain marketplace: what happened, what we tried, and what startup founders can use.
Stripe payments and email on Namegarage domains
How we moved Stripe-hosted payment pages and customer email onto Namegarage domains, with separate DNS and activation checks.
Dev blog#payments#stripe#dns#emailDev weekly: one catalog across APIs, assistants, and the website
October 25–31: matching catalog interfaces, anonymous discovery, payment comparisons, and explicit AI authorship labels.
Dev blog#weekly-summary#api#mcp#sdk#engineeringMarking the AI-written parts of Namegarage
We are adopting proposed HTML disclosure attributes so readers and dataset builders can identify AI-written passages.
Dev blog#website#engineering#aiOne public catalog contract for HTTP, MCP, SDKs and skills
Look up domains, compare payment options and find alternatives through matching public interfaces.
Dev blog#api#mcp#sdk#skills#releasesCopy your assistant setup in one click
Choose your AI assistant, follow its setup steps, and copy prompts, connection URLs, or SDK examples without retyping.
Dev blog#website#agentsPoppy discovery for public browsing
Personal agents can discover Namegarage through Poppy, with clear limits and anonymous access to the public catalog.
Dev blog#website#agentsMore ways to discover the public catalog
Agents can find the same anonymous catalog through ARD metadata and a shorter MCP card URL. Two npm aliases forward to the official SDK.
Dev blog#website#agents#sdkA JavaScript and TypeScript client for the catalog
Install the official Namegarage SDK to read the public domain catalog and search by project description without an API key.
Dev blog#website#agents#sdkA quickstart for the public domain APIs
Read the catalog, search for domains, and connect an MCP client with public examples and no API key.
Dev blog#website#agentsSharp uploads, blurry banners
An October 2026 audit of image delivery in desktop web views of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Spotify and X, with source files and reproducible measurements.
Dev blog#images#performance#brandingA footer that fits the page
The footer used to run the full width of the window while everything above it stopped at the text column, and on a phone its fourteen links stacked into a tower taller than most of what they sat under. It is two short rows now, aligned with the page, and every link in it is big enough to hit with a thumb.
Dev blog#website#accessibilityA trail, and a boundary
Every domain page and post now shows where it sits in the site, and the browser enforces limits on what other sites can do with our pages. Including one limit we chose not to set.
Dev blog#website#standards#privacyFaster, lighter, and readable without JavaScript
Every domain page now works with JavaScript off, heavy scripts load only when used, and an automated accessibility gate guards each deploy.
Dev blog#performance#accessibility#websiteOur domains announce themselves — _for-sale DNS records
Every domain in the portfolio now publishes an RFC 10023 _for-sale record, so tooling can discover it is for sale from DNS alone.
Dev blog#dns#standardsHow we price five thousand domains
No gut feelings — every price blends several independent appraisals, discards outliers, and is versioned like code.
Dev blog#pricing#appraisals