Business Name Desk is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 2 tools.
Check if a US business name is taken: state business registers, the .com and restricted words.
Business Name Desk does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 32.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.
claude mcp add name-check --transport http https://businessnamedesk.com/mcphttps://businessnamedesk.com/mcp[mcp_servers.name-check]
url = "https://businessnamedesk.com/mcp"{
"mcpServers": {
"name-check": {
"url": "https://businessnamedesk.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"name-check": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://businessnamedesk.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 2
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If a tool disappears, we record the date.
check_business_name
list_states
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://businessnamedesk.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 78 ms | 2 min ago |
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